Competency frameworks, models, instruments and thinking have long been ingrained and utilized in management and organizational life. Not surprisingly they have been transplanted both swiftly and seemingly easily into the leadership domain. While there certainly have been discomfort and critique from academic and practitioner sources, nothing has emerged strongly enough to date that would provide…
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Leadership is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Management and Organizational Studies, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Management Theory and Practice.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Leadership, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Management and Organizational Studies Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior Management Theory and Practice Organizational Learning and Leadership Gender Diversity and Inequality |
| ISSN | 1742-7150 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 1.54 |
| h-index | 81 |
| i10-index | 509 |
| Total citations | 26,953 |
| Top institutions publishing here | Lancaster University |
| Journal website | www.sagepub.com |
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This article indicates how the competency approach to leadership could be conceived of as a repeating refrain that continues to offer an illusory promise to rationalize and simplify the processes of selecting, measuring and developing leaders, yet only reflects a fragment of the complexity that is leadership. To make this argument we draw on two…
This paper reviews the literature on communication in organizations most relevant to the study of leadership. Although leadership communication research has a history of significant overlap with leadership psychology, the value commitments of a communicative orientation now find expression in a large body of extant literature that this paper reviews. These value commitments, which cross…
In the shadow of corporate scandals such as Enron and Worldcom, an increase in attention has been directed towards an approach termed `servant leadership'. To date, servant leadership has been discussed and described almost entirely in the North American context (Farling et al., 1999; Spears, 1995). In the following study, we explored the extent to…
Fearing that our overreliance on an individual, heroic model of leadership will only continue to dampen the energy and creativity of people in our organizations and communities, this essay proposes a practice perspective of leadership based on a collaborative agency mobilized through engaged social interaction. After briefly reviewing the emerging practice tradition in leadership studies,…