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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...