Browsing Working Papers by Subject "Leadership"

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    • Diversity and inclusion at the workplace: a review of research and perspectives 

      Nair, Nisha; Vohra, Neharika (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      In recent years, the discourse on diversity has seen a shift to that of inclusion. While there is a rich body of research in the area of diversity, inclusion has emerged as a fairly recent area of exploration and the varied ...

    • Leaders in action: some illustrations and inferences 

      Ramanarayan, S.; Rao, Ram Mohan (2010-03-26)
      Cases of six outstanding organizational helmsmen who had successfully built up and nurtured enduring organizations form the leit-motif of this essay. These organizations are: the Oberoi chain of hotels built up to dizzying ...

    • Leadership and human resource management styles of senior and top level managers 

      Rao, T. V.; Selvan, Tamil S.; Kumar, Rakesh (2010-03-15)
      This paper reports in detail a Leadership Styles Questionnaire (LSQ) developed to measure the Benevolent, Critical and Developmental styles of manages. This questionnaire has two forms; one for self-assessment and the ...

    • Leadership in Family Owned Organizations 

      Parikh, Indira J. (2012-10-11)
      The main focus of the study is on the role of entrepreneurs, progenitors, patriarchs and leaders in the family owned organizations. The family ownership and membership, being the family history relational dynamics, familial ...

    • Leadership styles and influence tactics 

      Sinha, Jai B. P.; Gupta, Parvinder (2010-01-16)
      Two hundred nine MBA (Masters in Business Administration) students of a management institute rated their leadership styles and influence tactics as a part of their classroom exercise. The findings indicated that they ...

    • Lighting candles: Impact of leadership actions on institution building 

      Ganesh, S. R.; Joshi, Padmanabh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1983-05-01)
      This paper uses the metaphor of lighting candles to describe the process of institution building. To illustrate this, it drawn upon the actions of a prolific institution builder like Dr. Vikram Sarabhai in order to distill ...

    • Motivation, leadership, and human performance 

      Kanungo, R. N.; Misra, Sasi B. (2010-03-29)
      This review critically examines and integrates the vast and diverse research on motivation and leadership in organizations during the past decade (1983-1993). The review prepared for the ICSSR sponsored Fourth Survey of ...

    • Paradigms of organizational leadership self organized criticality: the avalanche effect 

      Parikh, Indira J. (2009-12-14)
      This paper proposes to state some new paradigms of Organizational Leadership which will facilitate the leaders a well as collective leadership of senior managers to respond to the flux and dramatic shifts occurring within ...

    • When are rewards bad for creativity? examining the role of leadership and integrated extrinsic motivation 

      Gupta, Vishal (Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2014)
      The relationship between common creativity antecedents and creative performance is seldom clarified and the assertion that employee attitudinal and work environment factors spur creative performance has rarely been tested. ...