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Organizational leadership: motives and behaviors of leaders in current organizations.
Full Abstract
Organizational leadership is fundamental for the working and development of current organizations. It helps members of an organization to face transcendental challenges. One of the fundamental aspects of leaders is their personal characteristics and behaviour as perceived by their co-workers. Although research has established a relationship between these components, findings have failed to come up with any congruent evidence and further to this the organizations and contexts used are from several decades ago. This article, which forms part of the international GLOBE project, analyses the relationship between motives and behaviour as perceived by co-workers in organizations, using quantitative and qualitative methods and including technological innovations. Using samples from 40 corporate directors and 84 of their co-workers, from different companies, it confirms how the main motives of leaders (power, affiliation and achievement) are related to different behavioral patterns (power to authoritarian, non-dependent and non-social-skill behaviours; affiliation to relationship and dependent behaviors, and achievement to proactive behaviors). It discusses the results with relation to traditional research and suggests practical measures and proposals for future investigations in this area.
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Author/s: Martí, Margarita (M); Gil, Francisco (F); Barrasa, Angel (A);
Affiliation: ESADE, Universidad Ramón Llull de Barcelona, Spain. margarita.marti(-atsign-)esade.edu
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article
Journal: The Spanish journal of psychology (Span J Psychol), published in Spain. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2009-May; vol 12 (issue 1) : pp 267-74
Dates: Created 2009/05/29; Completed 2009/06/19;
PMID: 19476239, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 6/19/2009, IMS Date: )
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