Purpose – A variety of organisational leaders, workers, managers and academics had previously been classified on the basis of characteristics of their jobs including how they spent their time. This study investigated the extent to which managers from various UK industries could be meaningfully...

This article explains reasons why the study of the relationship between leadership and age may be important and, using a questionnaire survey to collect data from over 400 UK managers, it identifies age influences on the leadership styles and behaviour of the managers. The findings suggest that...

Several studies have examined the leadership styles and behaviour of managers across hierarchical levels to see whether or not the styles and behaviour are similar. The present study collected data from over 400 managers in the UK to research the topic. It found that generally there are...