Purpose – This paper aims to present some findings from a wider study into effective command, leadership and management in the British Royal Navy (RN). Its aim is to increase understanding of two types of self‐awareness, emotional and congruent, and their relationship to job performance and...

Purpose – To develop a model clarifying the personal factors and behavioural characteristics (competencies) relevant to effective command, leadership and management in the Royal Navy. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire study was conducted on a sample of 261 Officers and ratings....

Purpose – This paper aims to present a summary of a study to identify the competencies of effective leadership and management in the British Royal Navy (RN). Design/methodology/approach – The sample consisted of 261 Officers and Ratings. Performance was determined through the organisation's...

Purpose – To investigate the new leadership dimensions questionnaire (LDQ) and a related framework for assessing an individual's leadership style in relation to the context in which the leader works; the three new LDQ sub‐scales designed to measure organisational context, follower commitment...

Emotional intelligence (EI) is a topic of growing interest. This article describes the design of a new tailored instrument to measure emotional intelligence, which was piloted on 201 managers. Data are presented showing its high reliability and validity. In particular, construct validity is...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Importance of Emotional Intelligence -- Chapter 3.Does Emotional Intelligence Make a Difference? -- Chapter 4. Measuring Emotional Intelligence -- Chapter 5. Can Emotional Intelligence be Developed? -- Chapter 6. Developments in Leadership Thinking --...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Importance of Emotional Intelligence -- Chapter 3.Does Emotional Intelligence Make a Difference? -- Chapter 4. Measuring Emotional Intelligence -- Chapter 5. Can Emotional Intelligence be Developed? -- Chapter 6. Developments in Leadership Thinking --...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a model of change which is both academically rigorous and practitioner‐friendly. Design/methodology/approach – A theoretical meta‐analysis is conducted by clustering themes from across a broad range of change‐related literature...