Download or read book The Effects of Leadership Styles on Employee Engagement in an International Bank with Substantial Operations in Kenya MBA Thesis Accompanied by a CD ROM written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While employee engagement is still a relatively new area of research, it has been found that engagement significantly predicts job satisfaction and employee commitment to the organization. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of leadership styles on employee engagement within an international bank with substantial operations in Kenya. The study specifically aimed to answer the following: What is the effect of leadership styles on the employee?s beliefs about the organization and their work conditions? What is the effect of leadership styles on the employee?s feelings about the organization and work commitment? and what is the effect of leadership styles on the employee?s organizational citizenship behaviour? The study employed a descriptive survey design. The target population for this study consisted of 683 employees from the bank?s various units in its Head Office in Nairobi. A quota of 30% was established for each stratum within the bank from the five strata of: Service Line, Technical Systems Support, I.T. Helpdesk, Network Support and Data Centre. The study used stratified random sampling design where the researcher selected 205 respondents. A questionnaire was used as a sole data collection tool to collect primary data. The Inferential statistical method used was correlation and the descriptive statistical methods involved measures of central tendency; that is the mean. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences software (SPSS) assisted in data analysis. A multivariate regression model was applied to determine the relative importance of each of the variables within the engagement of employees. This study found that respondents were valued as individuals to a great extent (by a mean score of 4.06 out of 5). This study?s findings also noted that respondents agreed that the organization treats its employees with respect and dignity to a great extent (by a mean score of 3.92 out of 5). Finally, this study also established that respondents diligently observed the work rules and the code of conduct of the organization to a great extent (by a mean score of 4.42 out of 5). The researcher therefore, based on these findings concludes, that leadership styles do influence the employee?s beliefs about the organization and their work conditions. This was determined through the managers taking a real interest in the well being of the employees, who felt motivated in their daily duties and this made it easy for employees to spend ample time with their managers which improved their performance. The study also concludes that leadership styles do affect the employee's feelings about the organization and work commitment about the organization and work commitment. The study finally concludes that leadership styles affect the employee?s organizational citizenship behaviour. This study recommends that there is a need to have an entrenched training program within the organization geared towards building on employee beliefs about the organization and their work conditions from within the organization. The study also recommends that managers should use the most appropriate and effective leadership style that facilitates collective responsibility and consultative decision making with all stakeholders within the organization. Lastly, this study recommends that managers should also consider adopting transformational leadership and authentic leadership styles which, from research, have been found to be the most engagement-friendly leadership styles.
Download or read book The Impact of Leadership on Employee Engagement written by Rieke Weller and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2019 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,0, University of Aarhus (Management), language: English, abstract: An analysis of the relationship between leadership and employee engagement and the impact of the direct manager. This relation will be further examined through the practical example of Company X’ annual employee engagement survey. Leadership has the potential to influence the factors that affect the engagement level of the workforce to a great extent and is a crucial element when developing and increasing employee engagement. The aim is to leverage employee engagement in order to reach a high performance within an organization. But the discrepancy between the perceived importance of engagement and the level of engagement that actually exists in corporations today presents a serious gap between employees, organizations and Human Resource professionals. When tying employees and employers together in an employment relationship, it is expected that organizations align the interests of their employees to those of the firm. This is essential to make sure that employees act in ways expected of the organization and aligned with the corporate objectives to positively impact the outcome.
Download or read book Understanding the Impact of Leadership Style on Employee Engagement written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Impact of Leadership Styles on Employee Empowerment written by Krishna Murari and published by Stampa Global. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is based on exploratory research carried out by the author in Indian Business Organizations. The book is based on exploratory research carried out by the author in Indian Business Organizations. It gives insights to Employee Empowerment and five important leadership styles namely Transformational Leadership, Transactional Leadership, Servant Leadership, Abusive Leadership and Ethical leadership, and their characteristics based on the researches carried out by the scholars and gurus in these fields. Transformational leadership, servant leadership and ethical leadership styles enhance the employee empowerment while transactional leadership has no role in employee empowerment. The book highlights that abusive leadership style is used by many leaders, and it has negative impact on employee empowerment. Employee empowerment results in Quality of Work Life, Commitment and Job Involvement in employees, which enhances competitiveness of the organization. The book also emphasizes the role of personal characteristics of employees required to make them empowered. Some employees like to be empowered while some others do not. This book provides guidance to new researchers in the field of leadership and employee empowerment to carry out further researches in these fields in various countries and cultures. The book will guide the managers to identify and enhance the required characteristics to be a successful leader. This book will be a new milestone in the above fields of research and beacon to the practicing managers to navigate them to higher success.
Download or read book The Impact of Different Leadership Styles on Employee Engagement in an Organisation Undergoing Change written by Yusuf Mahomed and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The influence of resonant leadership styles on employee engagement within a financial services organization written by Ryan D. Maddux and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relationship Between Perceived Leadership Styles and Employee Engagement written by Tanyu Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employee engagement has long been regarded as important to business performance. Numerous consultants and some academic researchers report a strong link between employee engagement and organizational performance, while other studies have suggested that up to 80 percent of workers are 'not engaged' or 'disengaged' at their workplace. Gallup estimated that disengaged workers cost US business $270-343 billion per year because of low productivity, making the topic of how to increase employee engagement of great interest to leaders and human resource practitioners. Yet, despite the practical importance of understanding employee engagement better, relatively little research has been conducted into this field by academic researchers. -- To gain insight into how to enhance employee engagement levels, this study investigated the relationship between employee engagement and four perceived leadership styles - classical, transactional, visionary (transformational or charismatic), and organic (distributed). Much of the literature emphasizes that follower characteristics also influence the leader-follower relationship and, in this thesis, the roles of three employee characteristics were examined: employees' need for achievement, equity sensitivity, and need for clarity. -- A sample of 439 sales assistants in Sydney, Australia, completed a questionnaire survey. Multiple item scales measured leadership styles, employee engagement, and the three moderator variables of employee characteristics. Structural Equation Modeling was used for factor, path, and multi-group analyses. -- Overall, the results suggest that employee engagement is associated with an employee's perception of leadership style in his/her direct supervisor - negatively when classical or transactional leadership styles are perceived, and positively in the case of visionary or organic leadership. Moreover, the three employee characteristics moderate the relationship between perceived leadership styles and employee engagement in different ways. Regarding need for achievement, the higher employees' score on this variable is, the weaker the negative association is between employee engagement and classical or transactional leadership, and the stronger the positive association is between perceived visionary or organic leadership styles and employee engagement. By contrast, the higher equity sensitivity is, the stronger is the negative association between perceived classical or transactional leadership styles and employee engagement, and the weaker is the positive association between visionary or organic leadership and employee engagement. Finally, the higher employees' need for clarity is, the weaker is the negative association found between perceptions of classical or transactional leadership and employee engagement, whereas where employees' need for clarity is high, the positive association between visionary or organic leadership styles and employee engagement is weakened. The above results show that, as defined, the moderating variable has a strong contingent effect on the original relationship between the independent and dependent variables. -- This thesis makes three main contributions to knowledge. The first is in introducing a new scale verifying that the behavioral-outcome factors in the employee engagement construct consist of say, stay, and strive. The second contribution is the finding that perceived leadership styles are associated in varying ways with employee engagement. The third contribution is to theory by providing empirical support for leadership and followership theories that emphasize the role of the follower; specifically, this thesis demonstrates that employee characteristics moderate the relationship between perceived leadership styles and employee engagement. -- The findings have three major practical applications. (1) During the recruitment process, organizations should aim to appoint employees who exhibit characteristics predicting potentially high employee engagement. (2) Direct supervisors should adopt leadership styles that drive engagement in their employees. (3) Employee characteristics should be considered when adopting leadership styles for enhancing employee engagement.
Download or read book Leadership Style and Its Influence on Employee Engagement in the Non alcoholic Beverage Industry written by Dieago Miller and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective leadership is often deemed essential to the daily operations of manufacturing (Muddle, 2020). In recent years, many researchers have found employee engagement has declined and is negatively impacting productivity, employee morale, and employee engagement. While leadership is widely acknowledged as a primary factor influencing employee engagement, not all leadership styles effectively establish and enhance employee engagement (Chandrasekara, 2019). No known studies have investigated the relationship between leadership style and employee engagement in the non-alcoholic beverage industry. The purpose of this quantitative study is to examine transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership styles to see if there is a significant relationship to employee engagement. The study used a correlational research design to examine which leadership styles resulted in the highest and lowest levels of employee engagement. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (Bass & Avolio, 1995) and the Gallup Q12 employee engagement survey collected data from 108 full-time hourly and salaried employees at two non-alcoholic manufacturing plants in North Carolina and South Carolina. Research results revealed employee engagement had strong positive correlations with transformational and transactional leadership styles but a negative correlation with laissez-faire leadership style. Similarly, transformational leadership ranked highest in employee engagement, while laissez-faire leadership was lowest. Given the advantages and disadvantages of each leadership style, organizations must determine which leadership style has a significant influence on job performance and employee engagement. This study can help senior leaders identify and develop training programs to teach and encourage specific types of leadership behavior beneficial to influencing employee engagement.
Download or read book Principles of Management written by David S. Bright and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black & white print. Principles of Management is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the introductory course on management. This is a traditional approach to management using the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach. Management is a broad business discipline, and the Principles of Management course covers many management areas such as human resource management and strategic management, as well as behavioral areas such as motivation. No one individual can be an expert in all areas of management, so an additional benefit of this text is that specialists in a variety of areas have authored individual chapters.
Download or read book Tourism in Africa written by Iain Christie and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents how tourism initiates economic development and how constraints to the growth of tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa can be addressed. With 24 case studies that illustrate tourism development, it reveals that despite destination challenges, the basic elements needed to initialize or intensify success are applicable across the region.
Download or read book Digital Transformation in Business and Society written by Babu George and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The digital traces that people leave behind as they conduct their daily lives provide a powerful resource for businesses to better understand the dynamics of an otherwise chaotic society. Digital technologies have become omnipresent in our lives and we still do not fully know how to make the best use of the data these technologies could harness. Businesses leveraging big data appropriately could definitely gain a sustainable competitive advantage. With a balanced mix of texts and cases, this book discusses a variety of digital technologies and how they transform people and organizations. It offers a debate on the societal consequences of the yet unfolding technological revolution and proposes alternatives for harnessing disruptive technologies for the greater benefit of all. This book will have wide appeal to academics in technology management, strategy, marketing, and human resource management.
Download or read book Logistics Management and Strategy written by Alan Harrison and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2019 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book No Logo written by Naomi Klein and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-01-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands." Billy Bragg from the bookjacket.
Download or read book Green Logistics written by Alan McKinnon and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading the way in current thinking on environmental logistics, Green Logistics provides a unique insight on the environmental impacts of logistics and the actions that companies and governments can take to deal with them. It is written by leading researchers in the field and provides a comprehensive view of the subject for students, managers and policy-makers. Fully updated, the 3rd edition of Green Logistics has a more global perspective than previous editions. It introduces new contributors and international case studies that illustrate the impact of green logistics in practice. There is a new chapter on the links between green logistics and corporate social responsibility and a series of postscripts examining the effects of new developments, such as 3D printing, distribution by drone, the physical internet and the concept of peak freight. Other key topics examined include: carbon auditing of supply chains; transferring freight to greener transport modes; reducing the environmental impact of warehousing; improving the energy efficiency of freight transport; making city logistics more environmentally sustainable; reverse logistics for the management of waste; role of government in promoting sustainable logistics. The 3rd edition of Green Logistics includes indispensable online supporting materials, including graphics, tables, chapter summaries, and guidelines for lecturers.
Download or read book Middle Range Theory for Nursing written by Mary Jane Smith, PhD, RN, FAAN and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-time recipient of the AJN Book of the Year Award! Praise for the third edition: “This is an outstanding edition of this book. It has great relevance for learning about, developing, and using middle range theories. It is very user friendly, yet scholarly." Score: 90, 4 Stars -Doody's Medical Reviews The fourth edition of this invaluable publication on middle range theory in nursing reflects the most current theoretical advances in the field. With two additional chapters, new content incorporates exemplars that bridge middle range theory to advanced nursing practice and research. Additional content for DNP and PhD programs includes two new theories: Bureaucratic Caring and Self-Care of Chronic Illness. This user-friendly text stresses how theory informs practice and research in the everyday world of nursing. Divided into four sections, content sets the stage for understanding middle range theory by elaborating on disciplinary perspectives, an organizing framework, and evaluation of the theory. Middle Range Theory for Nursing, Fourth Edition presents a broad spectrum of 13 middle range theories. Each theory is broken down into its purpose, development, and conceptual underpinnings, and includes a model demonstrating the relationships among the concepts, and the use of the theory in research and practice. In addition, concept building for research through the lens of middle range theory is presented as a rigorous 10-phase process that moves from a practice story to a conceptual foundation. Exemplars are presented clarifying both the concept building process and the use of conceptual structures in research design. This new edition remains an essential text for advanced practice, theory, and research courses. New to the Fourth Edition: Reflects new theoretical advances Two completely new chapters New content for DNP and PhD programs Two new theories: Bureaucratic Caring and Self-Care of Chronic Illness Two articles from Advances in Nursing Science documenting a historical meta-perspective on middle range theory development Key Features: Provides a strong contextual foundation for understanding middle range theory Introduces the Ladder of Abstraction to clarify the range of nursing’s theoretical foundation Presents 13 middle range theories with philosophical, conceptual, and empirical dimensions of each theory Includes Appendix summarizing middle range theories from 1988 to 2016
Download or read book Construction Stakeholder Management written by Ezekiel Chinyio and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book captures best practice in construction stakeholdermanagement using a range of international case studies. Itdemonstrates stakeholder mapping, presents the power/interestmatrix and analyses a model for the timely engagement ofstakeholders. The increased use of partnering and other relational forms ofcontracting have underlined the need for project participants towork together and also to be aware of all those who can affect orbe affected by a project and its associated developments.Stakeholder management enables them to see this wider picture andprovides guidance for managing the diverse views and interests thatcan manifest in the course of a project’s life. All construction projects have the potential for conflicts ofinterest that can result in costly and damaging legal proceedings.This new book advocates an alternative to dispute resolution thatis proactive, practical and global in its application.Construction Stakeholder Management is therefore anessential text for advanced students, lecturers, researchers andpractitioners in the built environment.
