Changes in technology and the workplace have resulted in an increase in virtual teams. This CQ Dossier describes how leaders can effectively manage virtual teams and need a fresh set of skills to facilitate team effectiveness. The dossier draws on research and theory on leadership style and virtual teams.
This CQ Dossier describes the key characteristics of effective teams. The dossier draws on research that show how effective teams operate through coordination, communication, and shared cognition. The dossier describes how organizations can provide human resource practices such as employee training to ensure that teams are successful in reaching their missions and goals.
This CQ Dossier focuses on the importance of relationships within the leadership literature. It describes the theories of leader-member exchange (LMX) and servant leadership to describe how effective leaders build quality and strong relationships with each of their followers to gain commitment to the organizational mission.
This CQ Dossier focuses on the dark or destructive side of leadership and utilizes a trait approach in understanding destructive leaders. It summarizes the main personality traits that categorize destructive leaders, including narcissism, psychopathy, hubris and Machiavellianism.
Management without goals? Impossible, if you believe the large number of popular science and specialized books about management topics. Goals, target agreements, and bonus systems connected to target achievement are all part of every manager’s toolbox.
There is a growing need among managers to understand issues concerning organisational job satisfaction. It is quite tempting to regard job satisfaction as simply being ‘happy’ at work, but this topic is slightly more complex than we would normally expect. Let us start by defining job satisfaction and look into what it involves. One of the most common definitions for job satisfaction came out in 1976 from an American psychologist named Edwin Locke. As he put, it is simply “a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job or job experiences”. In other words, workers draw on their perceptions and emotions to evaluate jobs in some degree of favour or disfavour.
Die Fähigkeit Menschen zu führen ist nicht nur für Manager erfolgskritisch. Immer öfter finden sich auch Fachkräfte in Situationen, wo es um eine gezielte Einflussnahme auf Personen, Teams, Abteilungen oder ganze Organisationen geht. Trotz oder vielleicht gerade wegen dieser hohen Relevanz schwingt mit dem Begriff Führung immer auch etwas Mystisches mit. Dies wird unterstützt von einer Vielzahl von populärwissenschaftlichen Business Bestsellern über Führung, CEO Biographien und Executive Consultants, die in vielen Fällen auf individuellen Erfahrungen und anekdotischer Evidenz aufbauen. Damit verbunden ist eine sehr begrenzte Aussagekraft, deren Nutzen für die Entwicklung von Führungskräften und Professionals mehr als fraglich ist.
Vor ein paar Wochen habe ich an einem Fortbildungskurs über Leadership teilgenommen. Der Kurs war sehr gut organisiert, die Schulungsunterlagen waren qualitativ hochwertig und die beiden Trainer haben verschiedene Schulungsmethoden wie beispielsweise Vorträge und interaktive Gruppenarbeiten eingesetzt. Allerdings ist mir eine Sache aufgefallen.
I attended an instructor led leadership training session a couple of weeks ago. The training was well-organized, the training material of good quality and the trainers applied various training methodologies such as presentation sessions and interactive group work activities. However, there was one thing that really struck me.
Leadership is a phenomenon that has interested people for hundreds of years. One rather outdated explanatory approach still plays a prominent role in practice and the media in particular: The so-called Great Man Theory. In this blog we present what this theory is all about and why it is time to look for alternative approaches.
