leadership
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Use of the transformational leadership model in police management
The law enforcement system, like other governmental structures, is a very conservative mechanism showing no tendency towards swift changes in the style, methods and techniques of their work, as well as leadership and management style. Despite the fact that the police reform in Russia has already been going for more than four years since its launch, the Russian law enforcement services and their...
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Leadership and Performance of the Software Development Team: Influence of the Type of Project Management.
I Introduction Despite the existence of guides to good practice and established methodologies, many projects still show a high degree of failure (Lalonde, Bourgault, & Findeli, 2012). According to Papadopoulos (2015), traditional software developme...
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Responsible Leadership Research: A Bibliometric Review.
Introduction Responsible leadership is fast becoming a hot topic both in academia and in the business world. Two reasons seem to compete to boost this interest. Firstly, the growing complexity and connectedness in society, in which organizations, w...
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A Decade of Research on Leadership and its Effects on Creativity-Innovation: A Systematic and Narrative Literature Review.
1 Introduction Organizations are concerned with improving their processes and offers, but also with finding potential opportunities for advancements that strengthen and sustain their market position (Scheepers & Storm, 2019). Rapid technological dev...
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Leadership, Personal Values, and Cultural Context in Brazil, China, and the USA
This research examines the association between configurations of personal values and managerial incumbency among professionals in Brazil, the US, and Asia. Our research is different from classical leadership research as well as most cross-cultural studies in that it focuses on variance within countries first and then compares results between countries, while the great bulk of research looks at...
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Ethical leadership in South Africa and Botswana.
Abstract This study was conducted to investigate the extent of ethical leadership practices in African public utilities, given the relatively high corruption reported in such institutions, with consequences of seriously constrained development of n...
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What are the Attributes of Sustainable Leadership?
1 Introduction Corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be understood on different levels, such as the institutional, organizational, and individual levels (Aguinis & Glavas, 2012). On the individual level, the role of leadership is an important fa...
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Is it possible to identify transformational leadership in a financial institution?
1. Introduction The field of leadership studies focuses on the analysis of individuals' and groups' behavior within the organizational context, in addition to the effects of their action in the organization itself. Traditionally, leadership has been...
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Leadership practices in real estate management/ Praticas de lideranca na gestao imobiliaria.
Introducao e objetivos da pesquisa A lideranca tem sido estudada ha mais de um seculo, mesmo assim constitui-se um dos temas mais explorados na atualidade pela area da administracao. A sua complexidade tem travado uma infinidade de debates e a criac...
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Transformational Leadership and Job Satisfaction: Assessing the Influence of Organizational Contextual Factors and Individual Characteristics.
1 Introduction Leadership is considered to be essential for motivating organization members and mobilizing resources to fulfill company objectives. As such, the study of leadership remains a central theme in the organizational field (Day & Antonakis...
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The role of transactional leadership in the social performance of the maquiladora industry.
1 Introduction Leadership has become vital in business management due to the increasingly complex and uncertain scenarios, competitive markets, and the difficulty of adapting quickly. In response, companies need to develop sustainable strategies in ...
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Leadership, personal values, and cultural context in Brazil, China, and the USA.
Introduction Are leaders different from their followers? This deceptively simple question has been the source of much debate over more than a century and is still incompletely resolved. One of the earliest and most influential theories, Carslyle's ...
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Managers' leadership style and the commitment of their team members: associating concepts in search of possible relations.
1 Introduction This work is the result of research intended to identify how managers' leadership styles influence the commitment of their team members. Studies such as de Sa and Lemoine (1998) and Bycio, Hackett and Allen (1995) show that leaders...
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The Role of Resonant Leadership, Workplace Friendship and Serving Culture in predicting Organizational Commitment: the Mediating Role of Compassion at Work.
1 Introduction Organizational commitment is employees' attitude and loyalty towards their employer (Kumasey, Bawole, & Hossain, 2017; Lee & Reade, 2018). Committed employees serve customers in the best possible manner, which results in the establish...
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Exploring the role of the theory of planned behaviour, risk orientation, and participative leadership in SME managers' engagement in CSR.
1 Introduction Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role in the development of developing nations due to their significant contributions to job creation and economic growth (Zou et al., 2021). Additionally, with more than 90 per ...
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Oil taints Lula’s 'green leadership' at COP28
Drops of a dark-colored, viscous liquid spattered on President Lula’s "green leadership" at COP28, in Dubai. The Brazilian president’s participation at the climate conference was marked by contradiction between a move towards approaching ...
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Film analysis in management: a journey through the metaphors of the concept of leadership.
Introduction Management is a mix of science and art; the field is open to innovations by developing new practices and skills, with new dimensions that significantly change the art of learning and teaching (Davel, Vergara, & Ghadiri, 2007). A film ca...
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ArcelorMittal pays $2.2bn for steel mill to maintain leadership
ArcelorMittal, led by Indian family Mittal, announced it will invest $2.2 billion in the acquisition of Companhia Siderúrgica do Pecém (CSP), in northern Ceará, in order to consolidate itself as a leader in the production of flat steel in Brazil and ...
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The relationship between the leadership style and the resistance to change of individuals in a merger process/A relacao entre o estilo de lideranca e a resistencia a mudanca dos individuos em um processo de fusao.
Introducao Uma das razoes para o fracasso de muitas iniciativas de mudanca e o comportamento de resistencia dos funcionarios (Del Val e Fuentes, 2003; Lawrence, 1954; Maurer, 1996; Wadell e Sohal, 1998). Isso ocorre porque os individuos tem uma tend...
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Unipar plans to grow in Brazil and abroad under new leadership
After completing the integration of Solvay Indupa's assets, whose acquisition three years ago marked its entry into the PVC market and expansion of manufacturing operations abroad, Unipar plans to continue its strategy of growth and internationa...
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Women behind in leadership of Brazilian financial firms
Women presence in the high ranks of financial institutions has been increasing in the world, but in Brazil the growth is still timid, a new report by consultancy Oliver Wyman shows. In a survey of 468 publicly traded companies in 37 countries, the sh...
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Bolsonaro leaves BB leadership untouched to avoid market turmoil
After attacks coming from the Planalto Palace itself, it looks like Banco do Brasil CEO André Brandão is "more stable." This does not mean that the executive's job is guaranteed, but despite pressure from some groups interested in controlling th...
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Caminhos de uma pesquisa virtual: um estudo de lideranças e ação coletiva no Facebook no debate sobre o direito à cidade / Paths of a virtual search: a study of leadership and collective action on Facebook in the debate on the right to the city
Como internautas são mobilizados por líderes virtuais para reivindicar o direito à cidade e discutir política? Este artigo analisa o caso do grupo Direitos Urbanos (DU), o qual é responsável por discutir e articular várias mobilizações no Recife (Brasil) através do Facebook. A proposta é fazer uma discussão metodológica de aspectos que podem orientar investigações atuais e futuras acerca da...
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Deloitte changes leadership to double in size again
After a cycle of restructuring and expansion that will be eight years old at the end of the current fiscal year—in May 2024—Deloitte in Brazil will change its CEO. And the promise, after a period of strong growth, is to double revenues (and profitabi...
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Lawmakers compete for leadership in AI legislation
The public debate on the opportunities and risks associated with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) — which has intensified with the rapid popularization of ChatGPT — has triggered a dispute in Congress mainly among senators for the leading role...