This study examines the transformational and transformational leadership theory among the employees and managers at functional levels in IT research and development department of three major cities of Pakistan. The reason of choosing this business sector is its sizable contributions and significance in the regional economy as it is more involved in technological advancements and business develo...

The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between leadership styles of managers in relation to market orientation. Personal characteristics of top managers—age, education, area of specialization, and executive experience—are control variables. This exploratory study focuses on small and medium scale manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. Market orientation is defined as ...

Leadership experts agree that a key challenge facing leaders now and in the future is responsiveness to radical change. This article continues prior work on radical change with theory and research on leadership style. The result is a model of radical change describing the leadership styles best suited to the successful implementation of each stage in the change process. Using the Leadership Sty...

This article examines the significance of the correlation between coach leadership behavior and players’ organizational citizenship behavior, and the mediating role of psychological empowerment in the process. A total of 73 professional handball players from five different teams assessed leadership style, psychological empowerment, and organizational citizenship behavior based on the scale adap...

Leadership is crucial for agile team effectiveness and performance. The roles played by project leaders have significantly changed in agile methodologies, but very limited studies on leadership have been conducted in the agile software development context. Motivated by this gap, this study aims to investigate the roles of various leadership styles in agile methodologies and understand how diffe...

Leadership and job satisfaction are two factors that have been regarded as fundamental for organizational success. It has been shown that employees with high job satisfaction levels are likely to be more productive and exert more effort in pursuing organizational interests. The purpose of this study was to identify perceived leadership styles of nursing deans to determine whether they correlate...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the use of partnering in construction. Central to any successful partnering arrangement is the change in cultural and behavioural characteristics towards mutual trust and understanding. Leadership is originally the source of the beliefs and values which forms shared assumptions of organisational culture. This paper builds on the leadership li...

New Social Structures Are Generating New Leadership Styles Different epochs produce different kinds of leadership – with different patterns of hierarchical authority, different skill sets and attitudes, and different institutional incentives. Societies today are experiencing significant changes potentially as far reaching as the transition from agricultural to industrial societies. Today’s epoc...

the present study aimed to examine the relationship between coaches' leadership styles and some personal characteristics with group cohesion and team success. out of 135 athletes who participated in female volleyball championships of azad universities, 116 athletes (86%) completed the demographic questionnaire, leadership scale for sport (lss) and group environment questionnaire (geq). the...