Two roads to effectiveness: <scp>CEO</scp> feedback seeking, vision articulation, and firm performance

Ashford, Susan J.; Wellman, Ned; Luque, Mary F. Sully de; Stobbeleir, Katleen De; Wollan, Melody L.

doi:10.1002/job.2211

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“…Building on these points, we also propose that the proactive and relational aspects of work are mechanisms through which employees’ career aspirations add value to organizations. This proposal is consistent with recent findings demonstrating that antecedents of firm performance are indirectly associated with actual firm performance through employees’ capabilities and behaviors (e.g., Shanker et al, 2017 ; Ashford et al, 2018 ). It is also in line with recent studies demonstrating that employees positively contribute to organizations through the resources that they obtain from their networks (e.g., Liu et al, 2017 ; Jiang et al, 2018 ).…”

Section: Theory and Hypothesessupporting

confidence: 92%

How Do Career Aspirations Benefit Organizations? The Mediating Roles of the Proactive and Relational Aspects of Contemporary Work

Baroudi¹,

Khapova²,

Fleisher

et al. 2018

Front. Psychol.

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This paper examines how employees’ career aspirations benefit organizations, i.e., contribute to strengthening organizational capabilities and connections, by means of two aspects of contemporary work: proactive and relational. Data were collected from alumni of a public university in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in two waves with a 1-year time lag. The results showed that employees with career aspirations strengthen: (a) organizational capabilities; and (b) organizational connections through their instrumental and psychosocial relationships. Interestingly, although employees’ career aspirations were positively associated with taking charge, we did not find that taking charge mediates the relationship between career aspirations and employees’ individual contributions to organizational capabilities. This study is the first to examine how individual career aspirations benefit organizations, and it discusses the results in light of their novel contributions to theory and practice.

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Section: Theory and Hypothesessupporting

confidence: 92%

How Do Career Aspirations Benefit Organizations? The Mediating Roles of the Proactive and Relational Aspects of Contemporary Work

Baroudi¹,

Khapova²,

Fleisher

et al. 2018

Front. Psychol.

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“…Leader vision communication also helps followers understand what behaviors to avoid (Stam, van Knippenberg, & Wisse, 2010). This leadership behavior has been found to increase overall firm performance (Ashford, Wellman, Sully de Luque, De Stobbeleir, & Wollan, 2018). In sum, when leaders articulate a vision for their followers or team they facilitate a shared sense of purpose for the future that inspires and motivates individuals and teams to strive for shared goals.…”

Section: Gender Diversity and The Cemmentioning

confidence: 94%

When does gender diversity enhance team performance? The dual need for visionary leadership and team tenure

Kelemen

Matthews

Zhang

et al. 2020

J Applied Social Pyschol

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Teams in organizations are becoming more gender diverse as women continue to participate more in the workforce than ever before. Prior theory and research indicate that the characteristics of the team influence whether gender diversity in a team is an asset or a detriment. As such, this research explores a contingency model of the relation between gender diversity and team performance and looks to understand conditions that make this relation positive or negative. Specifically, we examine how leader vision communication (i.e., visionary leadership) affects the relation between gender diversity and team performance. Results from a sample of 595 full‐time employees across 106 teams in China indicate that leader vision communication moderates the relation between gender diversity and team performance such that when leader vision communication is low gender diversity decreases team performance and when leader vision communication is high gender diversity has no significant relation with team performance. We also test whether team tenure changes this relationship. Our results suggest that gender diversity improves team performance when both leader vision communication and team tenure are high. The findings in our sample demonstrate that gender diversity can help teams enhance performance, but only when the conditions are right for gender‐diverse teams to flourish.

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“…Third, research shows that CEO advice seeking has consequences for firm performance , such as firm survival (e.g., Chatterji, Delecourt, Hasan, & Koning, 2019), sales growth (e.g., Ashford, Wellman, Sully de Luque, De Stobbeleir, & Wollan, 2018), or profitability and market value (e.g., Westphal, 1999). Empirical evidence suggests that the performance effect of advice depends on the alignment between the information requirement of the firm’s strategy and the CEO’s advice contacts (Acquaah, 2007; Geletkanycz & Hambrick, 1997; Yoo et al, 2009).…”

Section: Outcomes Of Ceo Advice Seekingmentioning

confidence: 99%

CEO Advice Seeking: An Integrative Framework and Future Research Agenda

Kor

Seidl

2019

Journal of Management

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In this paper, we review the burgeoning but dispersed literature on chief executive officer (CEO) advice seeking, which has important effects on strategic decision making, the CEO’s and the board of directors’ effectiveness, and firms’ entrepreneurial orientation, innovativeness, and financial performance. We synthesize research findings about the key features of CEO advice seeking and its antecedents and outcomes across multiple levels of analysis. On the basis of our review, we identify important research gaps and develop a future research agenda that outlines new research questions and empirical foci that extend the current scope of analysis. We also highlight promising new theories and underutilized methods suitable for this area of research. With an integrative review and research agenda, we hope to stimulate cross-fertilization of different lines of inquiry and encourage new research that shines a spotlight on the remaining puzzles of CEO advice-seeking research.

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Two roads to effectiveness: CEO feedback seeking, vision articulation, and firm performance

Cited by 59 publications

References 115 publications

How Do Career Aspirations Benefit Organizations? The Mediating Roles of the Proactive and Relational Aspects of Contemporary Work

How Do Career Aspirations Benefit Organizations? The Mediating Roles of the Proactive and Relational Aspects of Contemporary Work

When does gender diversity enhance team performance? The dual need for visionary leadership and team tenure

CEO Advice Seeking: An Integrative Framework and Future Research Agenda

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