The Impact of Shared Vision on Leadership, Engagement, and Organizational Citizenship

The Impact of Shared Vision on Leadership, Engagement, and Organizational Citizenship
Author: Richard Eleftherios Boyatzis
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2015-10-28
Genre: Organizational behavior
ISBN: 2889196712

According to management and psychology courses, as well as legions of consultants in organizational psychology, shared vision in dyads, teams and organizations can fill us with hope and inspire new possibilities, or delude us into following false prophets. However, few research studies have empirically examined the impact of shared vision on key organizational outcomes such as leadership effectiveness, employee engagement, organizational citizenship, coaching and organizational change. As a result, the field of organizational psychology has not yet established a causal pattern of whether, if, and how shared vision helps dyads, teams and organizations function more effectively. The lack of empirical work around shared vision is surprising given its long-standing history in the literature. Bennis and Nanus (1982) showed that distinctive leaders managed attention through vision. The practitioner literature has long proclaimed that vision is a key to change, while Conger and Kanungo (1998) discussed its link to charismatic leadership. Around the same time, positive psychology appeared in the forms of Appreciative Inquiry (Cooperrider, Sorensen, Whitney, & Yaeger, 2000) and Positive Organizational Scholarship (Cameron, Dutton, & Quinn, 2003). In this context, a shared vision or dream became a legitimate antecedent to sustainable change. But again, empirical measurement has been elusive. More recently, shared vision has been the focus of a number of dissertations and quantitative studies building on Intentional Change Theory (ICT) (Boyatzis, 2008) at dyad, team and organization levels of social systems. These studies are beginning to lay the foundations for a systematic body of empirical knowledge about the role of shared vision in an organizational context. For example, we now know that shared vision can activate neural networks that arouse endocrine systems and allow a person to consider the possibilities of a better future (Jack, Boyatzis, Leckie, Passarelli & Khawaja, 2013). Additionally, Boyatzis & Akrivou (2006) have discussed the role of a shared vision as the result of a well-developed set of factors that produce a desired image of the future. Outside of the organizational context, positive visioning has been known to help guide future behavior in sports psychology (Loehr & Schwartz, 2003), medical treatment (Roffe, Schmidt, & Ernst, 2005), musical performance (Meister, Krings, Foltys, Boroojerdi, Muller, Topper, & Thron, 2004), and academic performance (Curry, Snyder, Cook, Ruby, & Rehm, 1997). This Research Topic for Frontiers in Psychology is a collection of 14 original papers examining the role of vision and shared vision on a wide variety of desired dependent variables from leadership effectiveness and executive performance to organizational engagement, citizenship and corporate social responsibility, and how to develop it through coaching.

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.

Inter-Organizational Collaboration by Design

Inter-Organizational Collaboration by Design
Author: Jennifer Madden
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2017-08-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 131546859X

Although difficult, complicated, and sometimes discouraging, collaboration is recognized as a viable approach for addressing uncertain, complex and wicked problems. Collaborations can attract resources, increase efficiency, and facilitate visions of mutual benefit that can ignite common desires of partners to work across and within sectors. An important question remains: How to enable successful collaboration? Inter-Organizational Collaboration by Design examines how these types of collaborations can overcome barriers to innovate and rejuvenate communities outlining the factors and antecedents that influence successful collaboration. The book proposes a theoretical perspective for collaborators to adopt design science (a solution finding approach utilizing end-user-centered research, prototyping, and collective creativity to strengthen individuals, teams, and organizations), the language of designers, and a design attitude as an empirically informed pathway for better managing the complexities inherent in collaboration. Through an integrated framework, evidence-based tools and strategies for building successful collaboration is articulated where successful collaboration performance facilitates innovation and rejuvenation. This volume will be essential reading for academics, researchers, leaders and managers in nonprofit, private, and government sectors interested in building better collaborations.

Doing Business in Emerging Markets

Doing Business in Emerging Markets
Author: Sudhir Rana
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2021-09-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000434923

This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of the business, financial and economic aspects of emerging markets. Using case studies from India, Turkey, Bangladesh and Africa, it discusses themes such as megaprojects, infrastructure and sustainability; cross-border mergers and acquisitions; a new paradigm for educational markets; exports competitiveness; work engagement in service sector; mobile banking and crowdfunding; and venture capital flow into emerging economies, to focus on the trade, foreign investment, financial, and social progress of these economies. The chapters review the current state, learnings, changing scenarios, business practices, and financial and economic perspectives across emerging markets while examining progression, challenges and the way forward. With its rigorous approach and topical content, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of management studies, business management, financial management, business economics, international business, finance and marketing, development studies and economics. It will also interest policymakers and practitioners in the field.

Toward a Positive Psychology of Relationships

Toward a Positive Psychology of Relationships
Author: Meg A. Warren
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2017-12-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

Providing an invaluable resource for scholars and researchers, this book investigates positive psychology and relationships theory and research across a range of settings and life stages—intimate, work, educational, senior/retirement, and in the context of diversity. Nearly universally, relationships are a key source of what we all seek in life: happiness, fulfillment, and well-being. The experts who contributed to this novel volume apply the framework of positive psychology to the findings of relationships research across a variety of practical contexts. What actions create and sustain respectful, caring, joyous, stimulating, and loving relationships? How do people rich in friendship, intimacy, and interpersonal skills think and behave? How do they unconsciously cultivate positive relationships? This book brings together authoritative reviews, cutting-edge research, and thoughtful scholarship that serve to answer these questions and document the benefit of positive relationships in a variety of settings and across the human life span. Following a comprehensive introduction, the book addresses positive intimate relationships, positive relationships at work, positive relationships during different stages of life (in youth, in adolescence, and among older adults), and positive relationships intersecting with diversity. The chapters underscore the simple concept that relationships are central to what makes life worth living and are fundamental to well-being across all life domains as they play out at home, in school, at work, in retirement homes, and in the community at large.

The Power of a Positive Team

The Power of a Positive Team
Author: Jon Gordon
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2018-06-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119430240

A book about teams to help teams become more positive, united and connected. Worldwide bestseller — the author of The Energy Bus and The Power of Positive Leadership shares the proven principles and practices that build great teams - and provides practical tools to help teams overcome negativity and enhance their culture, communication, connection, commitment and performance. Jon Gordon doesn’t just research the keys to great teams, he has personally worked with some of the most successful teams on the planet and has a keen understanding of how and why they became great. In The Power of a Positive Team, Jon draws upon his unique team building experience as well as conversations with some of the greatest teams in history in order to provide an essential framework, filled with proven practices, to empower teams to work together more effectively and achieve superior results. Utilizing examples from the writing team who created the hit show Billions, the National Champion Clemson Football team, the World Series contending Los Angeles Dodgers, The Miami Heat and the greatest beach volleyball team of all time to Navy SEAL’s, Marching bands, Southwest Airlines, USC and UVA Tennis, Twitter, Apple and Ford, Jon shares innovative strategies to transform a group of individuals into a united, positive and powerful team. Jon not only infuses this book with the latest research, compelling stories, and strategies to maintain optimism through adversity... he also shares his best practices to transform negativity, build trust (through his favorite team building exercises) and practical ways to have difficult conversations—all designed to make a team more positive, cohesive, stronger and better. The Power of a Positive Team also provides a blueprint for addressing common pitfalls that cause teams to fail—including complaining, selfishness, inconsistency, complacency, unaccountability—while offering solutions to enhance a team’s creativity, grit, innovation and growth. This book is meant for teams to read together. It’s written in such a way that if you and your team read it together, you will understand the obstacles you will face and what you must do to become a great team. If you read it together, stay positive together, and take action together you will accomplish amazing things TOGETHER.

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Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1233
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ISBN: 2384762974

Leadership Approaches Antecedents, Consequences, and Measurements

Leadership Approaches Antecedents, Consequences, and Measurements
Author: Burcu Üzüm, Osman Seray Özkan
Publisher: EĞİTİM YAYINEVİ
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2024-04-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 6256552318

Leadership represents a powerful force that shapes people’s cognitive frameworks, collaborative capacities, and most crucially, their visions for the future. This force can manifest in myriad ways, and the ripple effects of leadership can be considerable. Therefore, there exists an imperative to deepen our understanding of the potency invoked by leadership. This book has been constructed to facilitate comprehension of the realm of leadership. It explores various leadership paradigms, including responsible leadership, servant leadership, laissez-faire leadership, ethical leadership, authentic leadership, shared leadership, and toxic leadership types. It also delves into foundational elements like the antecedents, consequences, and measurement methodologies of each leadership type. This book is crafted for leaders and researchers keen to enhance their grasp and application of leadership. By examining the unique characteristics and impacts of the leadership types within, we aspire to hone leadership skills and mold the future trajectory of the business world. As readers, you will discover insights that can serve as a compass as you navigate the intricate depths of the leadership domain. The leadership styles addressed in this book aim to offer perspectives on how leaders can make a significant difference. This work has emerged with the invaluable contributions of many esteemed academics. Their endeavors have played a pivotal role in the book’s fruition. In conclusion, we hope that this book proves instrumental for everyone wishing to harness and comprehend the power of leadership. Leadership can catalyze not just the transformation of individuals but also societies and organizations. We hope this book acts as a critical roadmap for leaders and researchers dedicated to leadership studies.

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Leadership, Change, and Organizational Development

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Leadership, Change, and Organizational Development
Author: H. Skipton Leonard
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2016-09-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1119237920

A state-of-the-art reference, drawing on key contemporary research to provide an in-depth, international, and competencies-based approach to the psychology of leadership, change and OD Puts cutting-edge evidence at the fingertips of organizational psychology practitioners who need it most, but who do not always have the time or resources to keep up with scholarly research Thematic chapters cover leadership and employee well-being, organizational creativity and innovation, positive psychology and Appreciative Inquiry, and leadership-culture fit Contributors include David Cooperrider, Manfred Kets de Vries, Emma Donaldson-Feilder, Staale Einarsen, David Day, Beverley Alimo-Metcalfe, Michael Chaskalson and Bernard Burnes

Discovering Leadership

Discovering Leadership
Author: Anthony Middlebrooks
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 605
Release: 2023-02-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1071867016

Discovering Leadership: Designing Your Success, Second Edition provides a comprehensive practice-based introduction to leadership. The text guides students to design their leadership purposefully and mindfully as they develop their leadership knowledge, skills, and dispositions.