Leadership and Military Effectiveness

Reiter, Dan; Wagstaff, William Andrew

doi:10.1093/fpa/orx003

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“…Furthermore, as Pradhan and Jena (2017) stated in their study, certain organizations in military and healthcare sectors are more susceptible to bad leadership than other sectors since they are characterized by extremely high job pressure, risk involved, and higher costs associated with failure as a matter of life or death. In addition, Reiter and Wagstaff (2018) emphasized that the importance of positive and effective leadership in determining military effectiveness is the key element in obtaining the organizational goals. However, Erickson, Shaw, Murray and Branch (2015) reported that, nearly 30 the United States (U.S) soldiers committed suicide because of their leaders in Iraq.…”

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Destructive Leadership: “Boss From Hell”, How Not To Be One?

Biçer

2020

Ahi Evran Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi

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Leaders should motivate and inspire employees at the same time mitigating their discrepancies and creating synergy for the organizational goals. On the other hand, bosses and employees come and go but the negative effects of the destructive-toxic leadership will still remain in the organization. Destructive leadership might be regarded as positive if the organization is observed and evaluated as peaceful when all the works done in the nick of time, associated with the rules and the regulations of the organization. However, if the individuals reach a consensus that they are mistreated at workplace, they begin to sit on pins and needles and feel themselves unsecure and stressed. When the employees realize that they experience unacceptable, unfair and uncivil behaviors from the leaders or coworkers, then they feel worthless and disrespected, and begin to think about leaving and it leads to employee turnover. So, such negative outcomes may cause huge hidden costs like the organization will lose its reputation and its business contacts because of the leaving, offended employees. In this conceptual study, toxic, destructive leadership will be identified in detail through a literature overview and its consequences and countermeasures will be explained and major solutions will be offered.

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confidence: 99%

Destructive Leadership: “Boss From Hell”, How Not To Be One?

Biçer

2020

Ahi Evran Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi

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“…The review has also managed to illuminate the principal contexts or settings of military leadership studies. There are more than eight main types of adverse situation and environment in which military leadership operates: (1) changing and dynamic; (2) risky; (3) uncertain and complex; (4) dangerous; (5) stressful; (6) novel; (7) critical, and (8) hyperphysical. Specific exclusive types of situation and environment were also expressed within this review: security, operational situation, and predictable environments; combat zones; situational awareness; competitive, and double-edged-sword environments.…”

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“…While a successful Chief Executive Officer may make billions in company revenues from a business deal, a successful military general influences the future of a nation on the battlefield. However, in contrast to other leaders, wrong decisions made by military leaders could cause the deaths of hundreds of people who are not necessarily combatants, but innocents [8]. Blunders made by military leaders have proven to be more catastrophic compared to leaders of other fields, as substantiated from world war history and several world security conflicts [9].…”

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The Comparative Analysis of Profitability Visa and Mastercard Companies After Implementation of GPN as Provider of Debit Cards in Indonesia

2019

IJBM

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Although leadership is generally a complex concept, its application is crucial, especially for military organisations. Many have believed that leadership theory begins with research on military leaders. However, empirical studies on military leadership in recent years have been scarce. This study set out to analyse the recent extant literature on military leadership by applying a systematic literature review methodology. Guided by the PRISMA technique, two databases, Scopus and Web of Science, were employed, resulting in 16 related empirical studies. Further analysis of the studies revealed four significant themes: (1) leader attributes and traits; (2) leadership development; (3) adverse situations and environments, and (4) policy, guiding principles, and standards. The themes are conceptualised into a proposed military leadership framework, and several recommendations are reconciled based on the proposed framework. Leader traits and attributes remain a potential area for future research on military leadership coherent with other themes. The review also indicates that a number of further research directions should to be considered as the extant military leadership studies were only prevalent within the USA and several European countries as settings, mixed methodology is still an underutilised approach, and high ranking military leaders as well as gender studies were found to be other promising future research directions.

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“…First, this article enhances our understanding of how military elites decide whether to fight and on which side in a civil war. With few exceptions (Arnold, Chatagnier, and Hollibaugh 2020; Reiter and Wagstaff 2018), there is a striking absence of studies that put forward and test theories about the behavior of individual military commanders. This gap is notable given the importance of military elites to the conduct of civil war.…”

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Rebel, Remain, or Resign? Military Elites’ Decision-Making at the Onset of the American Civil War

White

2023

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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A critical element in civil wars is military fragmentation. Yet, we have a limited understanding of why military elites fight in civil wars and on what side. In this article I develop a theory of the economic and professional motivations of military elites. I test this theory using the case of West Point graduates in the American Civil War. I argue that in addition to home state, economic and professional interests were a major influence on West Pointers. Graduates with connections to Southern cash crops were less likely to fight for the Union and more likely to fight for the Confederacy. Higher ranking graduates were more likely to fight for both sides, as they were better positioned to compete for promotion. I test this argument using a new dataset of more than 1000 West Point graduates’ wartime allegiances and antebellum careers and find strong evidence in support of my expectations.

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Leadership and Military Effectiveness

Cited by 11 publications

References 51 publications

Destructive Leadership: “Boss From Hell”, How Not To Be One?

Destructive Leadership: “Boss From Hell”, How Not To Be One?

The Comparative Analysis of Profitability Visa and Mastercard Companies After Implementation of GPN as Provider of Debit Cards in Indonesia

Rebel, Remain, or Resign? Military Elites’ Decision-Making at the Onset of the American Civil War

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