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A study conducted by Hulpia et al. focused on the impact of the distribution of leadership and leadership support among teachers and how that affected job satisfaction and commitment. The study found that there was a strong relationship between organizational commitment and the cohesion of the leadership team and the amount of leadership support.
In both studies, high-involvement management practices were positively associated with employee morale, employee retention, and firm financial performance. [12] Watson Wyatt found that high-commitment organizations (one with loyal and dedicated employees) out-performed those with low commitment by 47% in the 2000 study and by 200% in the 2002 ...
Much of the research presenting strong evidence of success with high-commitment management practices may be due to confounding variables. An example of this can be seen in research by Burton and O'Reilly, [ 31 ] who suggested that the benefits seen from high-commitment practices may not be due to the practices themselves, but may result from an ...
Research has demonstrated that successful leaders differ from other people and possess certain core personality traits that significantly contribute to their success. Understanding the importance of these core personality traits that predict leader effectiveness can help organizations with their leader selection, training, and development ...
Goal setting is a major component of personal-development and management literature. Studies by Edwin A. Locke and his colleagues, most notably, Gary Latham [4] have shown that more specific and ambitious goals lead to more performance improvement than easy or general goals.
Organizational identification correlates to the relationship between self-identification and commitment to an organization. [9] Organizational identification instills positive outcomes for work attitudes and behaviors including motivation, job performance and satisfaction, individual decision making, and employee interaction and retention.
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Reviews of research on these dimensions are described in Stogdill's Handbook of leadership: A survey of theory and research and Littrell's Explicit leader behaviour. According to the findings of these studies, leaders exhibit two types of behaviors to facilitate goal accomplishment: People-oriented (consideration) Task oriented (initiating ...