Download or read book The Impact of Perceived Leadership Styles on Hotel Employee Job Engagement written by Abutaleb Zarban and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Engaged employees have a positive impact on organizational outcomes. In fact, employees who are highly committed to their jobs tend to perform better, and such employees are less likely to quit. Leaders in the workplace have the potential to influence employee work engagement. Different leadership styles might drive employee engagement to different extents. The purposes of this study are twofold: to identify the leadership styles and drivers that lead to engaged employees, and to contribute to the literature of employee engagement in the context of hospitality and tourism. This study used a quantitative method, specifically survey that was distributed to the United States hotel employees through Amazon M-Turk. The survey measures employee level of engagement using UWES and leadership styles using MLQ in addition to 18 drivers of engagement and 10 demographic questions. This study found that ‘fairness’ was evaluated as the most valuable driver to make employees feel engaged at work. The findings of this study showed that there is significant relationship between transformational and transactional leadership behavior and employee engagement whilst significant negative correlation was found between the perceived passive/avoidant leadership and employee engagement. Discussion, implications, limitations, and future research are presented."--Abstract.
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 Impact of Leadership Styles on Employee Empowerment written by Krishna Murari and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 399 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. 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 style enhance the employee empowerment while transactional leadership has no role in employee empowerment. The book highlight that abusive leadership style is used by many leaders and has negative impact on employee empowerment. Employee empowerment results in Quality of Work Life, Commitment and Job Involvement in employees which enhance competitiveness of the organization. It also emphasizes the important 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 Understanding Employee Engagement written by Zinta S. Byrne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employee engagement is a novel concept that has been building momentum in recent years. Understanding Employee Engagement: Theory, Research, and Practice exposes the science and practice of employee engagement. Grounded in theory and empirical research, this book debates the definitions of engagement, provides a comprehensive evaluation of empirical findings in the engagement field including a focus on international findings, and offers implications for science and practice in organizations. Employers can learn how to foster and drive engagement to increase productivity and happiness, and researchers can master the existing engagement literature and begin to study the many propositions and new models Zinta S. Byrne, Ph.D. proposes throughout the book.
Download or read book Analysing the Impact of Leadership Styles and Employee Engagement on Job Satisfaction of Salespeople in the Speciality Chemical Industry written by Pieter Stephanus Claassen and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership style -- Job satisfaction -- Employee engagement -- Transformational leadership style -- Transactional leadership style -- Laissez-faire leadership style.
Download or read book Organizational Assessment written by Edward E. Lawler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1980 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on the measurement of business organization behaviour and organization development in view of quality of working life - explains purposes, models, methodologys and processes of organizational assessment. Bibliography pp. 624 to 658 and diagrams.
Download or read book Organizational leaders and empowered employees written by Lori L. Wegner and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Principles of Management for the Hospitality Industry written by Dana V Tesone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is vital for hospitality management students to understand key management concepts as part of the complex and intimate nature of the services industry. Principles of Management for the Hospitality Industry is designed specifically for hospitality students who need to be able to use management tools and techniques to become successful hospitality managers. By placing you at the heart of an imaginary workplace this book offers the opportunity to work through all of the items of discussion for each topic. The chapter begins with a scenario to prompt an exploration of a given topic, and concludes with the outcome of this scenario to reinforce the lessons learnt throughout the chapter. Highly practical in approach, this is an up-to-date and skilful integration of all core areas of management. It is packed with tools and techniques to aid learning and understanding: improve your professional management vocabulary with definitions in each chapter, and a complete glossary of terms visualize key concepts with over one hundred explanatory diagrams gain confidence by testing your understanding on the accompanying website practical applications of theory are illustrated in international case studies throughout the book discussion questions prompt an exploration of key concepts.
Download or read book Improving Organizational Effectiveness Through Transformational Leadership written by Bernard M. Bass and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1994 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can managers bring about optimum performance from the individuals in their organizations? What leadership techniques produce the most effective organizations? This book examines the theory and practice of the dynamic and innovative style of transformational leadership. The transformational leader encourages followers by acting as a role model, motivating through inspiration, stimulating intellectually, and giving individualized consideration to their needs and goals. Chapters explore how transformational leadership affects important issues in today's organizations such as delegation, teamwork, decision making, total quality management and corporate reorganization.
Download or read book Work Engagement written by Arnold B. Bakker and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the most thorough view available on this new and intriguing dimension of workplace psychology, which is the basis of fulfilling, productive work. The book begins by defining work engagement, which has been described as ‘an opposite to burnout,’ following its development into a more complex concept with far reaching implications for work-life. The chapters discuss the sources of work engagement, emphasizing the importance of leadership, organizational structures, and human resource management as factors that may operate to either enhance or inhibit employee’s experience of work. The book considers the implications of work engagement for both the individual employee and the organization as a whole. To address readers’ practical questions, the book provides in-depth coverage of interventions that can enhance employees’ work engagement and improve management techniques. Based upon the most up-to-date research by the foremost experts in the world, this volume brings together the best knowledge available on work engagement, and will be of great use to academic researchers, upper level students of work and organizational psychology as well as management consultants.
Download or read book Leadership Behavior Impact on Employee s Loyalty Engagement and Organizational Performance written by Raimi-Akinleye Abiodun and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-10-08 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every organization is looking for ways to improve employee participation, loyalty and engagement; which most scholars believe could help with the organization' performance. We all know that leading with character is a good management skill for any leader that wants to be successful and effective. In this book, the following are seen as some characteristic behaviors that could distinguish a competitive and skillful leaders from others. When you are visible in the organization, know how to handle diversity, set expectations and most importantly know how to communicate and listen to your customers and employees, the result is always good for the organization. People begin to feel valued, respected and their sense of belonging begins to improve. The impact of employee feelings and perceptions will be seen on how they feel about the organization in general. The importance of good leadership on organization's performance and productivity is unquestionable and should be a driving force for leaders to demonstrate behaviors that are essential and productive.
Download or read book The Effect of Empowering Leadership on Work Engagement in an Organizational Change Environment An Investigation of the Mediating Roles of Self Efficacy and Self Esteem written by Ava Tress and published by Anchor Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As modern organizations seek for changes to enhance their competitive positions and their survivability in global markets, the successful implementation of organizational change has become an important management task. But still, many companies are unable to succeed in change processes. Failures show that there is considerable room for researchers to provide insights into opportunities for improving the success of organizational change events. Given the fact that individuals are the most important units in organizational change, a successful implementation requires employees’ acceptance and support. Hence, employees ́ positive attitudes and their Work Engagement are considered to be fundamental requirements. Nevertheless, there is limited understanding of the multitudinous factors associated with employees ́ decision to support organizational change. Basically, organizational change is stressful as it requires the readiness to embrace change and the readjustment of employees’ routine tasks. In this regard, leadership is considered to be one of the most important variables affecting the attitudinal dimension of organizational processes. In respect of the types of leadership behavior and their exchange relationship with followers, several reviews and meta-analyses have shown that Empowering Leadership can result in individual, group and unit performance beyond expectations. Empowering Leadership implies sharing power to foster employees’ motivation and engagement in their work. Empowering Leadership emerges when supervisors foster trust-based relationships with followers, show interest in their personal problems, facilitate participative decision-making and coach them to be more self-reliant. These specifications show that this leadership style is highly relevant to Employee Work Engagement. However, relatively few studies have tested how and why Empowering Leadership relates to Follower Work Engagement in organizational change environments.
Download or read book The Effects of Transformational and Servant Leadership on Employee Work life Effectiveness written by Maren Dollwet and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessing Well Being written by Ed Diener and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sandvik, Diener, and Seidlitz (1993) paper is another that has received widespread attention because it documented the fact that self-report well-being scales correlate with a number of other methods of measuring the same concepts, such as with reports by knowledgeable “informants” (family and friends), expe- ence sampling measurement, and the memory for good versus bad life events. A single factor was found to underlie measures using different methods, and a n- ber of different well-being self-report measures were found to correlate with the non-self-report measures. Thus, although the self-report measures of well-being are imperfect, and can be in uenced by response artifacts, they have substantial validity as shown by their correlations with measurements based on alternative methods. Whereas the Pavot and Diener article reviewed the Satisfaction with Life Scale, the Lucas, Diener, and Larsen (2003) paper reviews various approaches to assessing positive emotions. As we wrote in the chapter in this volume in which we present new measures, we do not consider any of the existing measures of positive affect to be entirely acceptable for measuring subjective well-being in the affect area, and that is why we have created and validated a new measure.
Download or read book Effects of Influence on Perceived Leadership Effectiveness and Employee Engagement written by Anna May Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing Without Managers written by Ricardo Semler and published by . This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encounters written by Erving Goffman and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of every unit of social organization must eventually lead to an analysis of the interaction of its elements. The analytical distinction between units of organization and processes of interaction is, therefore, not destined to divide up our work for us. A division of labor seems more likely to come from distinguishing among types of units, among types of elements, or among types of processes. Sociologists have traditionally studied face-to-face interaction as part of the area of “collective behavior”; the units of social organization involved are those that can form by virtue of a breakdown in ordinary social intercourse: crowds, mobs, panics, riots. The other aspect of the problem of face-to-face interaction—the units of organization in which orderly and uneventful face-to-face interaction occurs—has been neglected until recently, although there is some early work on classroom interaction, topics of conversation, committee meetings, and public assemblies. Instead of dividing face-to-face interaction into the eventful and the routine, I propose a different division—into unfocused interaction and focused interaction. Unfocused interaction consists of those interpersonal communications that result solely by virtue of persons being in one another’s presence, as when two strangers across the room from each other check up on each other’s clothing, posture, and general manner, while each modifies his own demeanor because he himself is under observation. Focused interaction occurs when people effectively agree to sustain for a time a single focus of cognitive and visual attention, as in a conversation, a board game, or a joint task sustained by a close face-to-face circle of contributors. Those sustaining together a single focus of attention will, of course, engage one another in unfocused interaction, too. They will not do so in their capacity as participants in the focused activity, however, and persons present who are not in the focused activity will equally participate in this unfocused interaction. The two papers in this volume are concerned with focused interaction only. I call the natural unit of social organization in which focused interaction occurs a focused gathering, or an encounter, or a situated activity system. I assume that instances of this natural unit have enough in common to make it worthwhile to study them as a type. Three different terms are used out of desperation rather than by design; as will be suggested, each of the three in its own way is unsatisfactory, and each is satisfactory in a way that the others are not. The two essays deal from different points of view with this single unit of social organization. The first paper, “Fun in Games,” approaches focused gatherings from an examination of the kind of games that are played around a table. The second paper, “Role Distance,” approaches focused gatherings through a review and criticism of social-role analysis. The study of focused gatherings has been greatly stimulated recently by the study of group psychotherapy and especially by “small-group analysis.” I feel, however, that full use of this work is impeded by a current tendency to identify focused gatherings too easily with social groups. A small but interesting area of study is thus obscured by the biggest title, “social group,” that can be found for it.
