Purpose – Organizations often fail to utilize managerial personnel effectively for leadership development and … responsibility for leadership development away from line managers. The purpose of this article is to present a best practices model … for optimal development of the leadership pipeline and a series of practical recommendations for organizations. Design …

Purpose – This paper aims to argues that effective and well‐designed leadership development can help successful …‐designed leadership development initiatives and how those relate to the ethical issues and problems posed as “successful” managers move … qualitative analysis of data on learning and goals set and achieved as part of an international leadership development programme …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce a meta leadership style, awakened leadership (AL), as the most … chooses as its subject organizational leadership. The study presents results form verbal interviews carried out on the topic …. It also presents: a literature review on existing leadership theories; an explanation and definition of AL; the elements …

Purpose – Hersey and Blanchard's situational leadership (SL) model is widely utilised, but it has limited empirical … validity of aspects of the SL model, principally that successful leadership interactions would vary systematically according to …

Purpose – The objective of this article is to explore and challenge the concept of leadership by presenting a … perspective on leadership as identity construction. The perspective presented is based on premises from the complexity sciences …. Design/methodology/approach – The article is based on a conceptual discussion. Findings – Leadership is better understood as …