Relationships Between Employee Job Performance and Leadership Styles Within a Government Agency

Relationships Between Employee Job Performance and Leadership Styles Within a Government Agency
Author: Kevin E. Clark
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020
Genre: Administrative agencies
ISBN:

This study examined if leadership style and job performance have a positive correlation in non-profits and governmental agencies. Specifically, this study explored the correlations between leadership style to employee job performance and effectiveness. Fifty people participated in the study across several agencies and non-profits in the Memphis area. The results were collected through online surveys and individual structured interviews. Several different Statistical tests and analytical measures were used to determine significance. The results reflected a relationship between leadership style and job performance that was strong and significant. Most importantly, the study showed that a relationship is necessary between employee and management to ensure high performance.

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.

The Impact of Leadership Styles on Organizational Effectiveness

The Impact of Leadership Styles on Organizational Effectiveness
Author: Talha Iqbal
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2011-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3656032610

Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A, course: Management Sciences, language: English, abstract: The purpose of the dissertation is to analyze the relationship between leadership styles and organizational effectiveness of IT firms in Karachi. After the survey sent in the IT firm in Karachi it has been come into notice that leadership style affects the effectiveness of IT organization. Four different types of leaders are found which are listed as dictator, democratic, visionary and free rein leader. All these styles have an impact on organizational effectiveness. Dictator and visionary styles influence positively, whereas others negatively. The visionary or transformational style yield most organizational effectiveness. So this is the best style to be used. The different dimensions used to define organizational effectiveness in IT industry are employee morale, organizations competitive position, customer satisfaction, management satisfaction, ability to introduce organizational change, market share of the firm. It is better to use transformational leadership style in most cases but sometimes autocratic style can also be used. Autocratic leadership style should be used when the employee is young/fresh in the industry. They actually need direct guidance and concrete explanation about task.

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.

Improving Organizational Effectiveness Through Transformational Leadership

Improving Organizational Effectiveness Through Transformational Leadership
Author: Bernard M. Bass
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780803952362

How can managers bring about optimum performance from the individuals in their organizations? What leadership techniques produce the most effective organizations? This book examines the theory and practice of the dynamic and innovative style of transformational leadership. The transformational leader encourages followers by acting as a role model, motivating through inspiration, stimulating intellectually, and giving individualized consideration to their needs and goals. Chapters explore how transformational leadership affects important issues in today's organizations such as delegation, teamwork, decision making, total quality management and corporate reorganization.

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.

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.

Handbook of Administrative Communication

Handbook of Administrative Communication
Author: James Garnett
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 966
Release: 1997-03-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780824798062

This volume takes a communications-oriented approach to a wide range of topics encompassing organization, management, political theory and practice, business-government relations, innovation processes, and IT. Offering a balanced, international presentation, it contains authoritative contributions from world-renowned experts representing various disciplines, including administrative law, organizational and political theory, phenomenology, public and business management, educational technology, psychology, and other fields. The book addresses typically neglected subjects such as communicating through humor, drama, film, poetry, fiction, and other creative forms.