Leadership under Crises: A Research Agenda for the Post-COVID-19 Era

Lagowska, Urszula Gabriela; Sobral, Filipe; Furtado, Liliane

doi:10.1590/1807-7692bar2020200062

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“…In our study, child-care managers were burdened by increased demands imposed by politics and society, the intensive volume of information as well as high responsibility. The COVID-19 crisis might exacerbate the difficult leadership role of child managers as crisis management requires specific skills (e.g., group decision-making, collective leadership) imposing new stressors [84,85]. It is conceivable that work characteristics regarding work organization deteriorated more or less strongly depending on implementation efforts, individual's appraisals, as well as the resources present [85].…”

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The Impact of the Implementation of Preventive Measures Due to COVID-19 on Work Design and Early Childhood Professionals’ Well-Being—A Qualitative Study

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Pietrowsky

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The reopening of child-care programs during COVID-19 demanded comprehensive preventive measures. Research to date has overlooked this reopening process as well as early childhood professionals’ (ECPs) implementation efforts and resulting changes in their work practices and well-being. As a result, this study sought insights into (1) the practical implementation of measures, (2) perceptions and evaluations of measures, (3) changes in work characteristics, and (4) its impact on well-being. Qualitative interviews were conducted with German child-care managers (N = 27) between June and August 2020. The semi-structured interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and content-analyzed using MAXQDA. ECPs, through a combination of high effort and engagement, ensured the feasibility of most preventive measures. This included practices which were perceived to be unreasonable or ones which were stricter than practices required for the public. This exacerbated the critical work characteristics (e.g., high workload, overtime, and multitasking) from pre-pandemic scenarios and led to new work demands (e.g., changes in work content and social interactions). ECPs maintained intensive work demands and consequently suffered from broad strain outcomes (e.g., worry, exhaustion, anger, fear of infection, and reduced psychological sense of community). This study highlights the adverse psychosocial work environment of ECPs despite the necessity of ensuring health and safety at work.

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The Impact of the Implementation of Preventive Measures Due to COVID-19 on Work Design and Early Childhood Professionals’ Well-Being—A Qualitative Study

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“…Likewise, Bundy et al (2017) explain that the leader’s success mainly depends on their ability to process information effectively and act accordingly in a crisis. Despite the fact that these abilities are at the foundation of any leader’s responsibilities, to tackle the emergencies and obstacles in their ways (Lagowska et al , 2020). For instance, leaders need to understand what is happening and what as it develops with high uncertainties not only related to firm future but also linked to crisis nature which itself is ambiguous.…”

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“…For instance, leaders need to understand what is happening and what as it develops with high uncertainties not only related to firm future but also linked to crisis nature which itself is ambiguous. Leading during times of crisis means gathering and evaluating numerous pieces of information from multiple sources while keeping an eye on their own biases that may impact this process (Lagowska et al , 2020; Hadley et al , 2011) and help them to enhance firm growth (Smolka et al , 2018). Furthermore, previous scholars also found that entrepreneurial self-efficacy is positively associated with firm performance, especially in the early stage of young firms, but such benefit dissipates over time (McGee and Peterson, 2019).…”

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The effect of effectuation and causation approach on entrepreneurial orientation in the presence of leader dominance and self-efficacy

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Ali

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Purpose Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has witnessed a daunting rise in firm-level practices; to some extent, it has been augmented by the factors such as globalization and technological shift. The wide variety of literature has explained the importance of EO for firm performance. However, it has not yet been explored at a firm-level the approaches of causation and effectuation through the prism of leader traits such as leader dominance and self-efficacy as administrative ability and EO as strategic manoeuvring with strategic decisions obliged as a spin of firms. Design/methodology/approach The authors used the quantitative method to analyse the proposed relationships. For this reason, the authors targeted the Chinese firms to collect the data through the semi-structured survey from December 2020 to March 2021 and contributed to the literature by investigating 480 valid responses of leaders from Chinese firms. Findings The findings support the incorporated view of causation and effectuation on EO, which serve as vital strategic manoeuvring along with leader traits for firm stability and growth. Practical implications This study assists the decision-makers (including the top management team, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Executive Officer choose the particular approach (effectual or causal) to create the new venture/new product/new process or scale up the existing firm on another level for optimal benefits by considering their existing resources. Originality/value EO is a unidirectional process with three dimensions: innovativeness, proactiveness and risk-taking that could directly favour the firm by considering the well-known approaches (effectuation and causation) in crisis circumstances (like Covid-19). These approaches help the executives enhance their firm’s performance and maintain its sustainability and stability in crisis conditions by effectively using the available resources within its boundaries.

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“…In a novel, crisis leaders must seek the contributions of others in decision-making [22], which a complex situation such as the Coronavirus pandemic in inclusive decisionmaking and stakeholder collaboration to achieve strategic goals [16,23]. Therefore, leaders must be equipped to share knowledge and expertise [24] gathered from internal and external expert colleagues to make informed decisions [15].…”

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The Impact of Covid 19 on School Administrators’ Leadership Attributes in Selected Schools in Jamaica

Boswell-Lewis¹

2022

TIJAR

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Principals have been called upon to utilize their personal leadership resources in Jamaican schools during the novel Corona Virus pandemic. This crisis has forced a radical shift in the landscape of school leadership and management not only in Jamaica but globally. The purpose of this descriptive quantitative study was to ascertain the impact of Covid-19 on principals’ level of compassion and care, openness and communication, adaptiveness, resilience and courage, consultation and collaboration, empowerment, and decisiveness. Additionally, it sought to assess whether there were differences in these leadership attributes based on school level, region, and gender. A 24-item questionnaire developed and validated by Balasubramanian and Fernandes (2022) and achieved an overall Cronbach Alpha of .84 was used to collect data. The sample included 50 principals and vice principals selected conveniently from the 7 regions 18 completed and returned the questionnaire, 15 females and 3 males. The data were coded and imported into the SPSS, version 27, and were screened, cleaned, and analyzed using weighted means and standard deviations and MANOVA. The mean ranges for interpretation include: 1.00 – 2.33 = Low Attribute; 2.34 – 3.67 = Moderate Attribute and 3.68 – 5.00 = High Attribute. The results showed that the principal participants scored high on leadership attributes. These findings hold critical and practical lessons for handling future crises. They show that effective leaders in many schools can function effectively in a crisis given that the policy makers provide adequate guidance and regulations with a relevant resources. Keywords: Adaptiveness, Compassion and care, Consultation and collaboration, Empowerment and Decisiveness, Openness and Communication, Resilience, and Courage.

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Leadership under Crises: A Research Agenda for the Post-COVID-19 Era

Abstract: When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters-one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

Cited by 27 publications

References 11 publications

The Impact of the Implementation of Preventive Measures Due to COVID-19 on Work Design and Early Childhood Professionals’ Well-Being—A Qualitative Study

The Impact of the Implementation of Preventive Measures Due to COVID-19 on Work Design and Early Childhood Professionals’ Well-Being—A Qualitative Study

The effect of effectuation and causation approach on entrepreneurial orientation in the presence of leader dominance and self-efficacy

The Impact of Covid 19 on School Administrators’ Leadership Attributes in Selected Schools in Jamaica

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