Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies articles from March 2006

Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies archives from March 2006

Promoting authentic behavior in organizations: an attributional perspective.
March 22, 2006... Building on recent theories of authentic leadership, we introduce an attributional framework for understanding authenticity. It is proposed that authenticity implies an accurate and balanced attribution style--a relationship that we argue has...

Attributional style in work settings: development of a measure.
March 22, 2006... We developed the Work Attributional Style Questionnaire to assess one's attributional propensities in work settings. In Study 1, a tendency to attribute positive events to internal, stable, global, and controllable causes was associated with...

Dispositional effects in intra-organizational influence tactics: a meta-analytic review.
March 22, 2006... We conducted a meta-analysis to test dispositional antecedents of intra-organizational influence tactics used. The antecedents tested included self-reported measures of impression management, Machiavellianism, self-monitoring, locus of control,...

Professional service ventures, performance, and the gender effect *.
March 22, 2006... It has been found in other occupations that there is a gender effect on the earning power of women: women earn less than men. Various studies have examined if there is a gender effect among professional service providers, but they have been...

Trust and the relationship between leadership and follower performance: opening the black box in Australia and China.
March 22, 2006... This study provides a cross-cultural comparison of the mediating effects of trust in the leader on the relationship between the in-role performance of followers (as rated by their leaders) and two types of leadership: transactional and...

Employee involvement, attitudes and reactions to technology changes *.
March 22, 2006... This research examines the relationships between employee reactions to specific technological changes and the job-related attitudes of these employees. The specific changes include the transition, by the organization's clinical professionals,...

Empowerment in the context of transformational change: a study of acquisitions and privatizations in Eastern Europe.
March 22, 2006... This paper examines conditions under which empowerment (decision autonomy, dialogic leadership) is connected with positive and negative effects, respectively, in regard to managing transformational change in Eastern Europe. Acquisitions by...

Network governance between individual and collective goals: qualitative evidence from six networks.
March 22, 2006... The article presents the results of an explorative study in six interfirm networks. Based on the assumption that the absence of clear objectives is considered as a specific aspect of leadership in networks, the aim of this paper is to identify...