"Transformational Leadership, High Performance Work Practices, and an Effective Organization"

Transformational Leadership and High-performance Work System Practices as Facilitatiors of Knowledge Work Behaviours

BEHAVIOURS INTRODUCTION " Knowledge Management is nothing new " (Hansen et al, 1999). This simple but incisive statement defines both the state and the challenges of the management of knowledge within purposeful organizations. As organizations and the people who work within them continue to evolve, and as the capacity to codify, store and easily share knowledge expands at an exponential rate, i...

Transformational leadership and innovative work behavior

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the mediating role of psychological empowerment and the moderating role of self-construal (independent and interdependent) on the relationship between transformational leadership and employees’ innovative work behavior (IWB). Design/methodology/approach – A total of 639 followers and 87 leaders filled out questionnaires from cross-industry sampl...

Transformational leadership and objective performance in banks

This investigation examines the relations between transforma-tional/transactional leadership and performance indicators of 20 diierent banks, using a sample of some 1500 observations. Leadership behavior is measured by the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), which i s used for the rst time in the German-speaking area. The psychometric quality of the German MLQ is analyzed and found to b...

An emerging leadership paradigm. Transformational leadership.

A Supply - Scarcity and Strategic Decision-Making Angle: High Performance Work Practices in Small Firms

High performance work practices (HPWPs) are human resource management practices aimed at stimulating employee and organisational performance. The application of HPWPs is not widespread in small organisations. We examine whether the implementation of coherent bundles of HPWPs (aimed at employee ability, employee motivation or at the opportunity to perform) depends on the scarcity of resources, a...