Purpose - The article aims to identify and classify competencies and values considered essential or even necessary in the daily work of active managers and leaders. Design/methodology/approach - This article is based on the results of comprehensive ethnographic research. I acquired the research...

Servant leadership has been identified as extremely important for organizational performance and success; therefore, much focus is placed on developing and maintaining leaders' positive attitudes and behaviors toward their subordinates. Different servant models have been put out by earlier...

Employee innovative behaviour shapes the core competitiveness of an enterprise. Leadership style has been shown to infuence employee innovative behaviour signifcantly. This research paper flls the gap by exploring the relationship between distributed leadership as an emerging leadership style...

The main purpose of this study was to examine the effect of empowering leadership practices on employee performance, and the mediating role of work engagement, as emphasized at Ethio-Telecom. Drawing on social exchange theory and self-determination theory, this study reports the responses of 214...

The present study investigates the relationship between transformational leadership (TL) and work engagement (WE). After the devastating effects of the recently hit global pandemic, organizations attempted to employ resilient strategies as turnaround strategies to gain the lost businesses. This...

This study examines the influence of participative leadership and cultural factors on employees' speaking-up behaviour and knowledge-sharing in supplier development initiatives in the garment industry. Specifically, this study investigates the impact of leadership effectiveness, cultural...

We study the delegation problem between a principal and an agent, who not only has better information about the performance of the available actions but also superior awareness of the set of actions that are actually feasible. We provide conditions under which the agent finds it optimal to leave...

Purpose: This paper seeks to explore the influence of workplace spirituality on employee behavior within organizational settings. Design: Systems thinking is used to explore various interrelated concepts of workplace spirituality (WPS). This study delves into the intricate interactions between...

In the dynamic world of construction projects, fostering innovation is paramount. This study investigates the transformative potential of shared leadership as a catalyst for team innovation. We examine knowledge-sharing density as a critical mediator through the lens of knowledge management. We...

Uninformed investors (the principal) often delegate investments to institutions (the agent) with information advantages. However, conventional linear benchmarked contracts tend to cause excessive pegging to the benchmark and thus price distortion of stocks in the benchmark. This paper studies...

We ask why we observe multiple layers of decision-making in fund management with investors, sponsors, fund managers, and consultants, even if additional decision-makers are costly and do not contribute to superior performance. In our model, an investor hires a wealth manager (“sponsor”), who...

Despite the importance of internal decision-making for corporate tax outcomes, we know little about the role of within-firm delegation of decision rights. Using confidential survey data, we examine the relation between corporate tax effectiveness and the extent to which capital investments,...

We employ a novel dataset that allows us to study the risk-taking of institutional investors managing collective retirement savings plans on behalf of individuals. Unobservable factors (heterogeneous expectations, risk preferences of institutional investors) explain most of the variation in risk...

In 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court decided PennEast Pipeline Co. v. New Jersey. The case is often associated with a theory of private delegation--that is, that Congress can delegate its federal eminent domain authority to private companies to build natural gas pipeline projects on state land. But...

Firms involved in the widespread practice of (delegated) innovation scouting face a crucial challenge: How to motivate innovation scouts to engage in extensive search for innovative projects given that search success oftentimes eludes them? Motivated by common scouting practice, we build a...

There are many types of leadership approaches, but participative leadership is a style which involves employees across different levels of the organisational hierarchy in contributing to performance. It is closely associated with consensus building, empathy, delegation, trust and job...

It is well established that an agent’s act binds the principal only if the agent has actual or apparent authority, or if the principal ratifies the unauthorized act. But confusion persists as to the legal status of the unauthorized agreement between the agent (purporting to act for the...