Management Decision: Volume 41 Issue 10

Educating managers for decision making and leadership

Victor H. Vroom

This paper describes a research program, spanning three decades, on the development of a model of leadership style – specifically, the form and degree to which managers should…

Guidelines for management and leadership decision

Erwin Rausch

This paper presents an eight‐questions model for leadership and management decisions. The eight questions provide a comprehensive and integrated system that can help managers…

Intuition in decisions

John R. Patton

To maintain and sustain competitive work organizations, leadership is necessary to help organizations develop a new vision, and rapidly manage organizational change to position…

Discovery mindset: a decision‐making model for discovery and collaboration

Joy Benson, Sally Dresdow

This paper explores a mental model for decision making that is focused on discovery and collaboration. The model consists of six components: self‐awareness, development…

Leadership, decision making, and organizational justice

B. Charles Tatum, Richard Eberlin, Carin Kottraba, Travis Bradberry

The article integrates three lines of research with regard to leadership, decision making, and organizational justice. First the theoretical perspective, it is argued that…

Does sex of the leader and subordinate influence a leader’s disciplinary decisions?

Robert D. Bisking, Malcolm Ree, Mark Green, Lamar Odom

This study, conducted in 2002, investigated the impact of sex on a leader’s decisions involving employee disciplinary situations. All leaders would like to believe that they make…

Gender influences in decision‐making processes in top management teams

Karin Klenke

Top management teams (TMT) were initially introduced almost 20 years ago but recently have rekindled the interest of researchers whose experience with organizations has…

Explaining executive integrity: governance, charisma, personality and agency

Louise Tourigny, William L. Dougan, John Washbush, Christine Clements

The recent significant occurrences of dysfunctional, and perhaps unethical, decision making and actions by a number of highly successful corporate executives suggest that there…

CEO and ethical reputation: visionary or mercenary?

Peter A. Stanwick, Sarah D. Stanwick

This study examines the relationship between ethical reputation, CEO compensation and firm performance for the top corporate citizens as rated by Business Ethics magazine. The…

The special challenges of academic leadership

Daniel James Rowley, Herbert Sherman

Effective leadership in any organization is a crucial component of overall organizational success. While many aspects of management and leadership are common to most…

Management by site‐based teams: a statistical approach

Carolyn E. Predmore, Salah E. Khelfaoui, Anthony Serio

There is a constant evaluation of managerial techniques ranging from the military leadership style to self‐motivated self‐management. Team management has gone from an American…

Leadership theory and practice: a “case” in point

Barry Armandi, Jeannette Oppedisano, Herbert Sherman

Leadership theory has little value if it cannot be applied to real world situations. A summary review of the literature on leadership theory is provided here first. A disguised…

Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone

Nigel Edwards