Substitutes for leadership: Their meaning and measurement

Kerr, Steven; Jermier, John M.

doi:10.1016/0030-5073(78)90023-5

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“…Police leadership has long been an area of interest for academic research (Bryman et al 1996;Kerr and Jermier 1978). While effective leadership appears such a desired commodity within policing, limited scholarly attention has been given to studying leadership processes and the barriers to developing more efficacious leadership practices (Mastrofski 2002(Mastrofski , 2006.…”

Section: Leadership In Policingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges for Police Leadership: Identity, Experience, Legitimacy and Direct Entry

Hoggett

Redford

Toher

et al. 2018

J Police Crim Psych

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The police service in England and Wales has developed a new approach to police leadership where individuals from outside of the police service can now enter directly to leadership ranks. Previous research identified that officers place great value on being led by someone who has experience of being a police officer. Adopting a social identity perspective, the current paper reports on quantitative and qualitative data about police officer views on direct entry and existing police leadership captured as part of a wider national survey (N = 12,549) of police officers in England and Wales. The paper identifies the importance that shared identity and credibility play in police follower/leadership relationships. It argues that direct-entry police leaders face credibility issues linked to their lack of shared police identity but also that serving officers perceive existing leaders to be poor because they believe they have forgotten what it is like to be a police officer. This paper develops a new theoretical and empirical approach to police leadership utilizing social and organizational psychology theory and research. The paper suggests that if police leaders understand police identity, then they can create propitious conditions within which police officers will follow their leaders.

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Section: Leadership In Policingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges for Police Leadership: Identity, Experience, Legitimacy and Direct Entry

Hoggett

Redford

Toher

et al. 2018

J Police Crim Psych

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“…To put it more clearly, task oriented leadership will force their followers engage in top-down communication, explain what the follower is to do, as well as when, where, and how each function is accomplished. A task oriented leader focuses on providing structure to his employees and encourages them to complete their tasks at the first point [11]- [13]. In the provided structure, employees follow rules and procedures as established by the leader-resulting in strict guidance.…”

Section: A Employee Motivationmentioning

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The Effects of Leadership Styles on Employee Motivation in Auditing Companies in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Khương¹,

Hoang²

2015

IJTEF

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Abstract-This research chose auditing field as a case study to investigate and evaluate the overall leadership styles effects on employee motivation. The research applied quantitative method with a sample size of 320 respondents -auditors working in Ho Chi Minh City. The independent variables were task-oriented leadership, relation-oriented leadership, change-oriented leadership, charismatic leadership, participative leadership, ethical leadership, ethic-based contingent reward leadership and autocratic leadership and employee motivation was the dependent variable. These independent variables could explain 64.5 % of the variation within employee motivation. This result implied a strong influence of leadership styles in retaining and developing employee motivation. In addition, this research indicated that charismatic leadership, relation-oriented leadership, and ethic-based contingent reward leadership were positively associated with employee motivation.Index Terms-Auditing field in Ho Chi Minh City, auditors, employee motivation, leadership styles, leadership behaviors.

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“…For example, in their highly cited paper, Kerr & Jermier (1978) minimized the significance of leadership by identifying "substitutes" for leadership. Yet, twenty-seven years later, publications like Harvard Business Review and others continue to devote considerable space to articles on leadership, such as a recent paper by Quinn (2005) who identified the qualities that enable one to enter the "fundamental state of leadership."…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%