Overconfidence is a well-established behavioral bias that involves the overestimation of one's own capabilities. We introduce a model in which managers and agents exert effort in a joint production, after the manager decides on the allocation of the tasks. A rational manager tends to reduce...

This study examines the impact of Environmentally Specific Servant Leadership (ESSL) on employees' pro-environmental behavior (PEB) by proposing a serial mediation model that incorporates green psychological empowerment and green creativity as central mechanisms. Guided by social exchange theory...

We advocate shared leadership as a key mechanism for unlocking innovation in family businesses. Family businesses, however, typically emphasize hierarchical leadership, reflecting the family power structure, which can pose challenges for successful innovation by limiting resources and knowledge...

Upon entering an organization, newcomers aim to reduce uncertainty, and often do so by adjusting to the organizational status quo. In this paper, we argue that these efforts to adjust and fit in can, paradoxically, enable newcomers to stand out. We focus on a specific way in which newcomers can...

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...

This paper investigates how responsibility for addressing interpersonal misconduct within organizations is managed as part of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) efforts. Despite progress in promoting workplace EDI, the management of interpersonal misconduct tends to be individualized rather...

This research addresses a significant gap in the academic literature: the lack of robust tools for quantifying employee involvement in Lean Manufacturing (LM). This shortfall is critical, as employee involvement is a cornerstone of LM's success. To address this deficiency, our study creates a...

This study examines the impact of servant leadership and career development policy on employee voice behaviour at State Polytechnics in East Java, Indonesia, using the Stimulus-Organism-Response (SOR) theory framework. Employing a structured survey, responses were gathered from 182 non-teaching...

Despite the documented benefits of algorithmic decision-making, individuals often prefer to retain control rather than delegate decisions to AI agents. To what extent are the aversion to and distrust of algorithms rooted in a fundamental discomfort with giving up decision authority? Using two...

The interest in project leadership research has expanded towards shared leadership practices, and shared leadership is a noteworthy alternative for traditional project management approaches. Despite the growing interest in shared leadership, the role of events in the emergence of shared...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...