Leading the team, but feeling dissatisfied: Investigating informal leaders' energetic activation and work satisfaction and the supporting role of formal leadership

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chia‐Yen (Chad) Chiu ◽  
Jennifer D. Nahrgang ◽  
Ashlea Bartram ◽  
Jing Wang ◽  
Paul E. Tesluk
Keyword(s):  
Work Satisfaction ◽  
Informal Leaders ◽  
Formal Leadership

scholarly journals Contradictory Conservation: The Role of Leadership in Shaping Energy Efficiency Culture in Urban Residential Cooperative Buildings

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 648
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Cost Efficiency ◽  
Board Member ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Strong Energy ◽  
Informal Leaders

In addition to formalized leadership roles within organizations, leadership can also influence members through informal channels. This work argues that multifamily residential buildings can be viewed as organizations and, as such, explores the influence that informal leaders can wield in shaping culture around the motivation for conserving energy. This work draws on qualitative fieldwork conducted in a Brooklyn cooperative building. Findings indicate that the study building benefitted from the leadership of a long-standing board member, which contributed to the implementation of a number of energy efficiency initiatives. Interestingly, this leadership also led to a culture of cost efficiency over environmental concern as the motivating force behind these initiatives. This narrative was well disseminated, with most residents reporting that the building does not have a culture of conservation, despite a strong energy efficiency leaning. Thus, this work posits that leadership can greatly shape perception and culture around energy but can also be leveraged to craft a more environmentally-motivated conservation culture. It also argues that leadership can be complementary to decentralized organizational structures, and that creative mechanisms in residential buildings can capitalize on both, allowing members at all levels of the organization more influence in shaping the building’s culture.

Exploring Distributive Leadership in South African Public Primary Schools in the Soweto Region

2015 ◽  
pp. 283-304
Author(s):  
Raj Mestry ◽  
Suraiya R Naicker
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Distributive Leadership ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Gauteng Province ◽  
Leadership Framework ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Formal Leadership

The increasing expectations of the principalship and the intensification of the challenges facing schools today have resulted in the emergence of distributive forms of leadership in schools worldwide. These developments prompted research in schools in South Africa, more specifically in the Soweto region, to inquire if distributed leadership had manifested. Soweto is a township in the Gauteng province of South Africa that is associated with the historic struggle against the apartheid government (pre-1994). A qualitative approach executed by means of focus group interviews was employed at three schools to explore the views of teachers who did not hold formal leadership positions. It was found that distributive leadership had not transpired in the schools that are largely rooted in classical leadership practices. This chapter provides an account of the study while elucidating the concept of distributive leadership and examines the role of formal leaders within a distributive leadership framework.

Women, Faith, and Social Cohesion

2021 ◽  
pp. 327-345
Author(s):  
John Anthony Lawler ◽  
Ghazala Mir
Keyword(s):  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Faith Communities ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
Formal Leadership ◽  
Participatory Research Methods ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter presents findings from a research study examining the relationship between faith communities, social cohesion activity and the leadership role of women. The study examined women's exercise of leadership or influence in small intercultural, interfaith projects, which they had developed to improve social cohesion in their local communities. Data were gathered using qualitative interviews and participatory research methods, predominantly with women from a range of religious backgrounds. Findings indicated that women involved in interfaith activity often occupied roles with relatively little power within their communities. Despite this they were at times able to affect considerable influence within their own contexts. Contrary to expectations from existing evidence, changes resulting from the interfaith activities under consideration occurred despite rather than because of formal leadership. The concept and practice of leadership in interfaith activity and how this might relate to different conceptualizations of social cohesion and leadership within faith communities are discussed.

Leadership as a collective process

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Abson
Keyword(s):  
Single Source ◽  
Leadership Studies ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Large Section ◽  
Collective Process ◽  
Formal Leadership ◽  
Influence Process

As we have seen in the previous chapters of this book, one of the criticisms of a large section of leadership studies is that they still mostly focus on the role of those in formal leadership positions. The majority of leadership scholars still tend to study leadership from the perspective of the formal leaders, and with the preconception that leadership stems from a single source. This perspective is referred to as an entity-led perspective – viewing leadership through the lens of the behaviour of one person. By taking this entity-led perspective, leadership studies are still very narrow in focus. However, some scholars have begun to recognise the limitations of ‘heroic’ or entity-led leadership studies and have instead turned their focus from leadership as something a leader does, towards conceptualising leadership as an influence process (Langley & Tsoukas, 2017; Northouse, 2017).

Who gets fired, who gets re-hired: the role of workers’ contract, age, health, work ability, performance, work satisfaction and employee investments

2014 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred F. Wagenaar ◽  
Michiel A. J. Kompier ◽  
Irene L. D. Houtman ◽  
Seth N. J. van den Bossche ◽  
Toon W. Taris
Keyword(s):  
Work Ability ◽  
Work Satisfaction ◽  
Health Work

The role of leader behaviors in hospital-based emergency departments’ unit performance and employee work satisfaction

2011 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blossom Yen-Ju Lin ◽  
Chung-Ping C. Hsu ◽  
Chi-Wen Juan ◽  
Cheng-Chieh Lin ◽  
Hung-Jung Lin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Departments ◽  
Work Satisfaction ◽  
Leader Behaviors ◽  
Unit Performance

scholarly journals The Mediating Role of Work Satisfaction on the Effect of Organizational Justice on Employee Engagement

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 196-207
Author(s):  
Siswoyo Haryono
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Organizational Justice ◽  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Work Satisfaction ◽  
Temporary Employees ◽  
Mediating Role

This research evaluates the mediation role of job satisfaction on the effect of organizational justice on employee engagement among temporary employees at Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta. The population of temporary employees at Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta is 213, and the sample was 70. The analysis employed Smart PLS 3.0. The results show that organizational justice affects job satisfaction, and job satisfaction significantly affects employee engagement. Job satisfaction has a mediation role in the effect of organizational justice on employee engagement among temporary employees at Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta. The benefit of the research is that improving employee engagement would be adequate by increasing both job satisfaction and organizational justice.

scholarly journals ANALISIS PERAN PEMIMPIN INFORMAL DALAM PELAKSANAAN PEMBERDAYAAN WANITA NELAYAN (STUDI KASUS TENTANG KEGIATAN SOSIAL WANITA NELAYAN DI KEJAWAN LOR KELURAHAN KENJERAN SURABAYA)

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Istiqomah Dian Supriati
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Method ◽  
Informal Leadership ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Fishing Village ◽  
Training Activity ◽  
Informal Leaders ◽  
Effective Role

This research was conducted qualitatively with triangulation approach with snowball sampling method. A total of 8 resource persons were taken in research consisting of formal, informal leaders, fishermen and fishermen mothers. The research took the lo-kasi in the fishing village, namely Kejawan Lor Surabaya. There are eight indicators of leadership to assess the role of informal leaders in empowering mothers of fishermen. Assessment of empowerment is done in two activities that is training activity and activity of Posyandu. The results showed that informal leadership factors such as the ability to give suggestions, support the achievement of goals, catalysts, Representation of empowerment success, source of inspiration and appreciation of the leader proved to be an effective role in leading the empowerment in Kejawan Lor. While the factors of fairness still show weaknesses that need to be improved. The conclusions of this study indicate that in-formal leaders have an effective role to empower citizens. Keywords: Empowerment, Women Fishermen, Informal Leaders 

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