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Co-Leader Relationships and the Impact on Team Functioning

Description:: Co-leadership is becoming a more popular and prominent leadership structure across a variety of industries and settings; however, the body of knowledge on this topic is limited. Much of the current research focuses on whether co-leadership is a beneficial or detrimental form of leadership and...
Author:: Lanzo, Lauren
Keyword:: Leadership and Co-Leadership
GW Unit:: Organizational Sciences
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Offermann, Lynn R.
Committee Member(s):: Ruark, Gregory A. and Olsen, Nils
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Leadership Predictors and Employee Consequences of Perceived Employee/Organization Goal Alignment

Description:: Employees are critical to the achievement of organizational goals and strategy. This study defined and explored the predictors and consequences of employee goal alignment, whereby employees have an understanding of their own goals and perceive that their goals are aligned to organizational goals....
Author:: De Graaf, Sumona Basu
Keyword:: Employee, Leadership, Goals, Alignment, Structural Equation Modeling, and Organization
GW Unit:: Organizational Sciences and Communication (I/O Psyc)
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Offermann, Lynn R
Committee Member(s):: Nielsen, Tjai N, Hyland, Patrick, Behrend, Tara S, and Olsen, Nils
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

The Effect of Leader Behavior and Team Processes on the Development of Team Cohesion

Description:: Cohesion has been consistently acknowledged as an integral component of team success, with ample research linking cohesion to team effectiveness, performance, and efficiency within teams. Given strong linkages between cohesion and performance, organizations would benefit from knowledge regarding...
Author:: Severt, Jamie Benjamin
Keyword:: Leadership, Emergent States, Cohesion, Sports, and Teams
GW Unit:: Organizational Sciences and Communication (I/O Psyc)
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Costanza, David
Committee Member(s):: Goodwin, Gerald, Offermann, Lynn, DeCostanza, Arwen, and Behrend, Tara
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

The Effects of Leadership Behavior on Workplace Harassment, Employee Outcomes, and Organizational Effectiveness in Small Businesses

Description:: Although scholars have long examined antecedents affecting the incidence of workplace harassment, little is known about the effects of immediate managers' leadership behavior on the incidence of workplace harassment. This is unfortunate because supervisors have a strong influence on their...
Author:: Lee, Junghyun Hyun
Keyword:: Small businesses, Workplace harassment, Psychological climate, and Leadership
GW Unit:: Management
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Jensen, Jaclyn M.
Committee Member(s):: Nielsen, Tjai M., Offermann, Lynn R., Taylor, M. S., and Solomon, George T.
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Does Taking a More Holistic View of Personality Improve its Predictive Utility? A Comparison Multiple Regression, Fuzzy Cluster Analysis, and Indirect Mixture Modeling for Predicting Leadership Effectiveness

Description:: When using personality to predict leadership outcomes, researchers typically use either bivariate correlations or additive, linear multiple regression models. Recently, however, some researchers have suggested that the relationship between personality and leadership may be more complex than...
Author:: Yost, Allison Brown
Keyword:: Personality, Interactions, Leadership, Mixture Modeling, Nonlinear effects, and Cluster Analysis
GW Unit:: Organizational Sciences and Communication (I/O Psyc)
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Costanza, David P
Committee Member(s):: Sharpe, Patrick, Walmsley, Phillip, Crede, Marcus, and Behrend, Tara S.
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Leading the South: Emerging Powers in International Institutions

Description:: The lack of representativeness in key global organizations like the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and World Trade Organization (WTO) increasingly undercuts the credibility and efficacy of these institutions in solving pressing international issues, largely because they often fail to...
Author:: Alcorn, Amanda
Keyword:: Brazil, International Institutions, Mexico, Leadership, Global South, and Emerging Powers
GW Unit:: Political Science
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: McClintock, Cynthia
Committee Member(s):: Kaplan, Stephen B and Sell, Susan K
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Harnessing Innovation in the 21st Century: The Impact of Leadership Styles

Description:: Innovation is essential for organizational survival and effectiveness and often requires a balance between managing existing competencies, skills, and resources, and pursuing newer and radical aspirations. Organizational leaders play an important role in fostering innovation in the workplace and...
Author:: Jaffer, Salman Ayaz
Keyword:: Transformational Leadership, Leader Member Exchange, Leadership, Exploitation Innovation, Exploration Innovation, and Innovation
GW Unit:: Organizational Sciences and Communication (I/O Psyc)
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Offermann, Lynn R
Committee Member(s):: Grady, Victoria, Behrend, Tara S, Glenn-Dunleavy, Dana, and Olsen, Nils
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Learning from Failure: The Making of Entrepreneurial Leaders

Description:: Failure is a built-in component of the entrepreneurial journey due to its high levels of uncertainty and risk. Despite being difficult and challenging, failure represents one of the most valuable experiences that entrepreneurial leaders will ever have the (mis)fortune to engage in. This...
Author:: He, Fang
Keyword:: Emotion, Leadership, Entrepreneur, Learning, Failure, and Goal Orientation
GW Unit:: Business Administration
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Solomon, George T
Committee Member(s):: Singh, Sheetal, Bailey, James R, Giridharadas, Shyam, and Kayes, Christopher
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Please accept my sincerest apologies: Examining follower reactions to leader apology

Description:: Recognizing gaps in our present understanding of leaders' apologies, this investigation informs research and practice by studying follower reactions to leader apology. In particular, this dissertation examines how followers appraise leaders' apologies and how these perceptions impact their...
Author:: Basford, Tessa Elizabeth
Keyword:: Sincerity, Apology, Followership, and Leadership
GW Unit:: Organizational Sciences and Communication (I/O Psyc)
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Offermann, Lynn R.
Committee Member(s):: Jensen, Jaclyn M., Olsen, Nils, Hampel, Alexa D., and Behrend, Tara S.
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Embedded Civil Society: NGO Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness in Authoritarian China

Description:: In this dissertation, I have undertaken the first systematic effort to examine how grassroots NGO leaders in a nondemocracy have contributed to the ability of their respective organizations to meet organizational objectives. Using a case-study method, I undertook an in-depth examination of seven...
Author:: Tai, John Wei-Chung
Keyword:: Organizational Behavior, Embeddedness, Leadership, State Linkage, Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs), and Media Relations
GW Unit:: Political Science
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Dickson, Bruce J.
Committee Member(s):: Balla, Steven J., Lambright, Gina M.S., Brown, Nathan J., and McCord, Edward A.
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Gender and Culture Influences on Leadership Perceptions

Description:: This study examines how demographic characteristics of culture and gender contribute, in part, to the perceptions of leadership in multi-national organizations. Although gender and culture tend to be salient individual characteristics, few studies have investigated the role of gender in...
Author:: Domina, Natalya V.
Keyword:: Culture, Leadership, Gender, Survey, and Cross-cultural
GW Unit:: Organizational Sciences and Communication (I/O Psyc)
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Costanza, David P.
Committee Member(s):: Debebe, Gelaye, Offermann, Lynn R., Jensen, Jaclyn, and Olsen, Nils
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Co-Leader Relationships and the Impact on Team Functioning

Leadership Predictors and Employee Consequences of Perceived Employee/Organization Goal Alignment

The Effect of Leader Behavior and Team Processes on the Development of Team Cohesion

The Effects of Leadership Behavior on Workplace Harassment, Employee Outcomes, and Organizational Effectiveness in Small Businesses

Does Taking a More Holistic View of Personality Improve its Predictive Utility? A Comparison Multiple Regression, Fuzzy Cluster Analysis, and Indirect Mixture Modeling for Predicting Leadership Effectiveness

Leading the South: Emerging Powers in International Institutions

Harnessing Innovation in the 21st Century: The Impact of Leadership Styles

Learning from Failure: The Making of Entrepreneurial Leaders

Please accept my sincerest apologies: Examining follower reactions to leader apology

Embedded Civil Society: NGO Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness in Authoritarian China

Gender and Culture Influences on Leadership Perceptions

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