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Men and Women of the Corporation
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Impacts of leadership styles on personal and job outcomes among teaching faculty of public sector universities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the impact of three leadership styles (transactional, transactional and laissez-faire) on personal and job related outcomes (i.e., job satisfaction, job stress, organizational commitment, turnover intentions and job satisfaction).
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Empowerment and performance of managers and subordinates in elderly care: A longitudinal and multilevel study
TL;DR: Findings strengthen research and theoretical suggestions linking first-line managers' structural empowerment to their subordinates'Structural empowerment and ratings of their manager's leadership-management performance.
ESL teachers and their work: A study based on interviews conducted with teachers of English as a Second Language
Abstract: ESL TEACHERS AND THEIR WORK A STUDY BASED ON INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED WITH TEACHERS Of ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE MAY, 1990 SARAH P. YOUNG, B.A., GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY M.A. CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AT LONG BEACH Ed.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS Directed by: Professor Earl Seidman The study explores the experience of teaching English as a second language (ESL) from the teacher's vantage point. Twenty-two participants were selected from four levels of Massachusetts educational institutions: elementary school, middle and secondary school, community college and four-year college or university. Three tape-recorded interviews, each lasting ninety minutes, were conducted with each participant and later transcribed. Material was presented in the form of profiles composed in the words of the participants and thematic chapters. The study revealed sources of strength that participants found in their work and obstacles that confronted them. They gained strength from their ability to respond to the needs of their students and from drawing on a variety of resources in order to do this.
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Duo status: Disentangling the complex interactions within a minority of two
TL;DR: This chapter argues that members of a minority sub-group are subject to inter-group and intra-group pressures and that these pressures are greatest for a minority of two and introduces the term “duo-status” to describe this two-token situation.
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The Measurement of Organizational Commitment.
TL;DR: The Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ) as discussed by the authors ) is a measure of employee commitment to work organizations, developed by Porter and his colleagues, which is based on a series of studies among 2563 employees in nine divergent organizations.
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Searching for Common Threads: Understanding the Multiple Effects of Diversity in Organizational Groups
TL;DR: This article reviewed and evaluated recent management research on the effects of different types of diversity in group composition at various organizational levels (i.e., boards of directors, top management groups, and organizational task groups) for evidence of common patterns.
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Effectiveness correlates of transformational and transactional leadership: A meta-analytic review of the mlq literature
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of the transformational leadership literature using the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) was conducted to compute an average effect for different leadership scales, and probe for certain moderators of the leadership style-effectiveness relationship as mentioned in this paper.
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Transformational, Transactional, and Laissez-Faire Leadership Styles: A Meta-Analysis Comparing Women and Men
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of 45 studies of transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership styles found that female leaders were more transformational than male leaders and also engaged in more of the contingent reward behaviors that are a component of transactional leadership.
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Predictors of objective and subjective career success: a meta‐analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis reviewed four categories of predictors of objective and subjective career success: human capital, organizational sponsorship, sociodemographic status, and stable individual differences.