Virtual action learning: a pilot in building leadership capacity

This account of practice encompasses a pilot virtual action learning programme with a small group of learners. This was an 18-month extension to the one-week Leadership Open Programme that the participants had previously completed at the Business School. It includes insights from an evaluation study completed in early 2016. It considers in particular the following issues: the structuring of a virtual event; the significance of maintaining continuity of learning; the need for commonality of reference points about leadership in order to enhance it; the selection of problems by participants; whether leadership development itself is a ‘wicked problem’ and the role and skills required of the tutor to add value to the learning experience. Amongst other benefits, the participants found the chance to build relationships broke down the loneliness of leadership and greatly enhanced their learning. These issues will be explored further in a review planned for early 2017.     

No room at the top? The glass wall for professional services managers in pre-1992 English universities

Pre-1992 English universities are changing the way they appoint their deputy and pro-vice-chancellors (PVCs). Traditionally, PVC posts were filled by internal secondment from within the professoriate, but these days an increasing number are appointed by means of external open competition involving advertisement and/or executive search. So has this ‘opening up’ of PVC positions created new career progression opportunities for professional services managers? Findings from a census, online survey and interviews with a range of senior university managers suggest not. Despite the PVC role becoming more managerial, those getting the jobs remain overwhelmingly career academics. Professional services managers confront a glass wall, excluded from consideration by a non-negotiable requirement for academic credibility. Aware they have little chance of getting a PVC job, they are unlikely to apply. The continued monopolisation of PVC posts by academic managers represents a form of social closure that serves to maintain their elite status.     

谦卑型领导对下属沉默行为的影响机制研究

基于人—情境交互视角,探讨了具有中国儒、道两家思想特性的谦卑型领导对下属沉默行为的作用机理。480份企业员工数据统计结果表明:谦卑型领导、组织认同与下属沉默行为呈负相关关系;组织认同在谦卑型领导与下属沉默行为之间起部分中介作用;下属权力距离强化了谦卑型领导对下属沉默行为的负向影响,即下属权力距离感知越低,谦卑型领导对下属沉默行为的负向影响越强。而下属权力距离感知越高则降低了谦卑型领导的有效性,因而对员工沉默行为的负向作用的调节效果越弱。     

创业型领导:公司创业中高管团队的新角色

随着传统管理各项职能趋向“创业化”,创业和领导理论也呈现出交叉和融合的态势,领导者需要通过创业型领导来促进创业。为了应对动态复杂环境并推动组织变革,高管团队可以通过创业型领导来保证公司创业的实施和成功。     

虚拟团队共享领导及其影响因素与作用结果研究评述

采用文献研究法,以虚拟团队共享领导为主题,对现有研究进行梳理和分析。研究发现,共享领导比传统领导更适应虚拟团队;虚拟团队共享领导受成员个体、团队、垂直领导和组织支持、媒介等因素的影响;共享领导对虚拟团队结果和个体产出产生影响。最后,提出未来研究方向。     

变革型领导与企业绩效关系研究 ——失败学习的非线性中介作用

当前创新已成为引领企业发展的第一动力，创新失败也逐渐正常化。本文基于高层梯队理论和“过犹不及”理论，探讨了创新失败情境下CEO变革型领导对企业绩效的非线性影响，并引入失败学习（单环与双环）作为中介机制。通过层次分析，研究发现，CEO变革型领导对失败学习有显著正向影响；CEO变革型领导与企业绩效具有显著倒U形关系；失败学习（单环与双环）与企业绩效具有显著倒U形关系；失败学习（单环与双环）在CEO变革型领导与企业绩效的关系中起到中介作用。     

谦逊领导对个人—团队匹配的影响及其作用机制研究

综合社会学习理论和最佳区分性理论两种视角，引入团队成员交换为中介变量，检验谦逊领导对个人—团队匹配的作用机制。基于对52个项目团队277名成员的问卷调查，研究发现：谦逊领导对员工团队成员交换有着积极影响，团队成员交换对个人—团队匹配（一致性匹配、互补性匹配）有着积极影响；团队成员交换在谦逊领导与个人—团队匹配（一致性匹配、互补性匹配）之间起中介作用。研究结果丰富了谦逊领导、团队成员交换、个人—团队匹配领域的研究，并对组织管理实践有一定启示作用。     

双元领导对新员工社会化适应与创新的双路径影响研究

基于双元领导理论、创新理论和组织社会化理论,旨在探究双元领导对新员工社会化适应与创新的影响机制与边界条件。以354名企业新员工为调查对象,运用层次回归分析方法对概念模型进行检验。结果表明:(1)双元领导与新员工创新行为和任务绩效呈显著正相关;(2)角色宽度自我效能感在双元领导与新员工创新行为之间起部分中介作用;(3)角色清晰在双元领导与任务绩效之间起完全中介作用;(4)领导力对双元领导与角色宽度自我效能感和角色清晰之间的正向关系具有显著的强化效应。最后,对研究结果和研究意义进行了讨论并对未来研究做了展望。     

Changing leadership: Teachers lead the way for schools that learn

This paper presents findings from a three-year, qualitative study of teachers enrolled in a Masters of Teacher Leadership program. Researchers sought to understand the ways teachers’ beliefs about and understandings of teacher leadership were affected by their participation in a formal teacher leadership program, as well as the kinds of actions they took up as a result of this participation. Data indicate three significant ways participants’ work as teacher leaders was developed and enhanced, including: (a) identifying and amplifying their professional voice, (b) deepening and extending their voice as they plan, and (c) reframing their work/shift responsibility through constructing widening circles of influence and impact. Authors identify implications of their research for growing teacher leaders, school improvement and change, changing school culture, enhancing student engagement, and building new structures.     

Feminising and masculinising primary teaching: a critical examination of the interpretive frameworks of male primary school principals in Hong Kong

Over the past two decades, the feminisation of primary school teaching has been identified by the media and government officials in Western countries as an important contributing factor to boys' academic problems. This panic, which has been criticised by feminists as a backlash and a form of recuperative politics, has promoted the development of research into gender and education, particularly studies related to the gendered culture of primary schools and on the masculinities of male teachers. However, male primary principals remain relatively under-researched in the literature, despite the importance of their structural position and increasing concern over the masculinisation of school leadership. This paper aims to contribute to the discussion by critically analysing the interpretive frameworks of 12 male primary school principals. The findings reveal not only the complex, contradictory and at times culturally specific gendered discourses that some male principals employ, but also their feminising and masculinising effects on the school workplace and leadership.