Journal of Management Development: Volume 34 Issue 10

The relationship between culture and leadership style preference among Malay-Brunei, Bajau and Kadazan-Dusun community in Sabah, Malaysia

Dg Kamisah Ag Budin, Syed Azizi Wafa

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between culture and leadership style preference among Sabahans, namely Malay-Brunei, Bajau and Kadazan-Dusun.

The selection of leaders and social dominance orientation

Aneika L. Simmons, Elizabeth E. Umphress

Individuals who are high in social dominance orientation (SDO) tend to endorse the belief that members of traditionally considered high-status groups should dominate members of…

The relationship between training and organizational commitment among academicians in Malaysia

Nouruddeen Bashir, Choi Sang Long

The purpose of this paper is to address the question “what is the relationship between employees’ perception on training and employees’ organisational commitment?” using the…

Positive effects of laissez-faire leadership: conceptual exploration

Inju Yang

The dominant view of laissez-faire leadership has so far been avoidant or regarded as zero leadership. Consequently, it has been suggested that laissez-faire leadership is likely…

Learning to lead from outsiders: The value of career communities as a source of external peer coaching

Igor Kotlyar, Julia Richardson, Len Karakowsky

An increasingly popular method of facilitating employee and leadership development is via a career community (Parker et al., 2004), where individuals self-organize to obtain…

Would you please stop that!?: The relationship between counterproductive meeting behaviors, employee voice, and trust

Joseph A. Allen, Michael A. Yoerger, Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock, Johanna Jones

Meetings are ubiquitous in organizational life and are a great source of frustration and annoyance to many employees in the workplace, in part due to counterproductive meeting…

Virtue theory and organizational behavior: an integrative framework

George Gotsis, Katerina Grimani

The purpose of this paper is to provide a functional framework encapsulating a wide range of contributions to the ongoing debate on virtue as a critical dimension of contemporary…

The changed leadership landscape: what matters today

Joan Marques

The purpose of this paper is to present challenges in leadership performance today, as well as leadership styles that have potential, given the contemporary shifts in performance…