Leadership Styles Navigate Employee Job Performance

Leadership Styles Navigate Employee Job Performance
Author: Mohammad Islam
Publisher:
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2020
Genre:
ISBN:

Leadership styles have received enormous attention in a competitive business environment. It has become very popular facet to standardize human resources management agenda. An organization may be able to achieve the vision if there is a relevant and defined process to be practiced in leadership activities. Research too argued that leadership style is a strong navigator of employee job performance. The core attempt of the research is to unleash the practices of leadership style (Participative, Supportive, and Autocratic) that influence employee job performance and study the relationship between leadership styles and employee job performance. To attain the goal of the paper a number of 118 employees of mobile telecommunication industry has been purposively selected to collect primary data and a self-administered questionnaire designed using Likert 5 -point scale. Research tools such as descriptive, inferential statistics, correlations, regression; ANOVA has been used to analyze the data using SPSS version 20.0. The result of the research evident that there is a statistically significant positive correlation between leadership styles and employee job performance and the styles of leadership strongly influence employee performance except for the autocratic style that needs to be addressed by the policy makers, practitioner to ensure the employee job performance especially in mobile telecommunication industry of Bangladesh.

Supportive Accountability

Supportive Accountability
Author: Sylvia Melena
Publisher:
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2018-07-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780999743508

INSPIRE EMPLOYEES AND IMPROVE PERFORMANCE WITH SUPPORTIVE ACCOUNTABILITY LEADERSHIP: Some leaders are too harsh. Some are too lenient. Others are completely disengaged from employee performance management. Striking a delicate balance between supportive leadership and accountability is the key to ensuring employees are as effective and productive as possible.Sylvia Melena is the architect of the Supportive Accountability Leadership¿ Model, a simple but powerful framework that helps leaders create a motivating work environment while promoting accountability and improving performance. Through a mix of stories, actionable tips, and tools, you'll learn how to:¿Master the art of supportive leadership¿Inspire employees to advance your organization's vision¿Monitor performance and customer service efficiently¿Lead effective performance improvement conversations¿Pinpoint critical support factors to unleash performance¿Wield the power of employee recognition¿Boost performance through progressive discipline¿Document skillfully You'll also receive free access to the Performance Documentation Toolkit to help you ease the burden of employee performance documentation.

Impact of Leadership Styles on Employee Empowerment

Impact of Leadership Styles on Employee Empowerment
Author: Krishna Murari
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2015-02-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1482843641

The book is based on exploratory research carried out by the author in Indian Business Organizations. It gives insights to Employee Empowerment and five important leadership styles namely Transformational Leadership, Transactional Leadership, Servant Leadership, Abusive Leadership and Ethical leadership and their characteristics based on the researches carried out by the scholars and gurus in these fields. Transformational leadership, servant leadership and ethical leadership style enhance the employee empowerment while transactional leadership has no role in employee empowerment. The book highlight that abusive leadership style is used by many leaders and has negative impact on employee empowerment. Employee empowerment results in Quality of Work Life, Commitment and Job Involvement in employees which enhance competitiveness of the organization. It also emphasizes the important of personal characteristics of employees required to make them empowered. Some employees like to be empowered while some others do not. This book provides guidance to new researchers in the field of leadership and employee empowerment to carry out further researches in these fields in various countries and cultures. The book will guide the managers to identify and enhance the required characteristics to be a successful leader. This book will be a new milestone in the above fields of research and beacon to the practicing managers to navigate them to higher success.

Development of Self-Determination Through the Life-Course

Development of Self-Determination Through the Life-Course
Author: Michael L. Wehmeyer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2017-02-16
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9402410422

This volume examines the developmental aspects of the general psychological construct of self-determination. The term refers to self- (vs. other-) caused action—to people acting volitionally—as based on their own will. Research conducted in the fields of psychology and education shows the importance of self-determination to adolescent development and positive adult outcomes. The first part of this volume presents an overview of theories and historical antecedents of the construct. It looks at the role of self-determination in major theories of human agentic behavior and of adolescent development and individuation. The second part of the volume examines the developmental origins and the trajectory of self-determination in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, and looks as aging aspects. The next part presents studies on the evolutionary aspects, individual differences and healthy psychological development. The last part of the book covers the development of causal and agentic capability.

Work Engagement

Work Engagement
Author: Arnold B. Bakker
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2010-04-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136980881

This book provides the most thorough view available on this new and intriguing dimension of workplace psychology, which is the basis of fulfilling, productive work. The book begins by defining work engagement, which has been described as ‘an opposite to burnout,’ following its development into a more complex concept with far reaching implications for work-life. The chapters discuss the sources of work engagement, emphasizing the importance of leadership, organizational structures, and human resource management as factors that may operate to either enhance or inhibit employee’s experience of work. The book considers the implications of work engagement for both the individual employee and the organization as a whole. To address readers’ practical questions, the book provides in-depth coverage of interventions that can enhance employees’ work engagement and improve management techniques. Based upon the most up-to-date research by the foremost experts in the world, this volume brings together the best knowledge available on work engagement, and will be of great use to academic researchers, upper level students of work and organizational psychology as well as management consultants.

Leadership Styles and Employee Performance

Leadership Styles and Employee Performance
Author: Felix Ikor
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2012-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9783659147784

Leaders are made not born, if you have the desire and will power, you can become an effective leader, good leaders develop through a never ending process of self study, education, training and experience. There are certain things you must know and do, these do not come naturally but are acquired through continual work and study. Good leaders are continually working and studying to improve their leadership skills; they are not resting on their laurels.The success of any organization is largely dependent on the leadership style adopted and how well it inspires employees toward higher performance. For organizations to thrive, the leadership style in place must be able to drive employees towards performance throughout the organization.

Leadership Styles and Employee Outcomes

Leadership Styles and Employee Outcomes
Author: Farooq Anwar
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2012-03
Genre: Leadership
ISBN: 9783848425785

Leadership has drawn an unparalleled and unprecedented attention of researchers as well as managers of today's Corporate World over last couple of decades more than ever. This book has been written keeping in view the current challenges being faced regarding the selection of appropriate leadership style and its impact on the employee outcomes. Previous studies explored contradictory findings regarding the role of Organizational Commitment. This book clarifies the role of Commitment of employee, whether it be Affective, Continuous or Normative in the relationship between leadership styles and job outcomes like Job Satisfaction and Employee Performance.