The research reported in this article is the study of the preferences for decision‐making responsibilities indicated by white‐collar workers of a mining company′s headquarters in Perth, Western Australia. The research methodology used a “specific situation” item questionnaire with the...

The research is concerned with the level of trust between subordinates and superiors, level of influence of different grades in the hierarchy as perceived by members of the enterprise and how the level of each is influenced by the perceived style of leadership. The sample was taken from the...

Research is reported which was conducted using a randomly selected Western Australian community sample and involved measuring the respondents′ preferred style of leadership. The results suggest that people do not think employees should participate in decisions which can lead to possible...

Suggests that, owing to changes in the business environment, leadership rather than management is needed. Proposes, also, that a co‐operative relationship between the management and the workforce should be encouraged. Posits that there is a relationship between perceived and preferred styles...

Care should be taken by companies investing in any foreign country (particularly a country new to industry) to measure the preferred style of leadership of the workforce, and to get that style observed by the indigenous work groups and by those workers supplied by the expatriate manager; if this...