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Leadership and performance beyond expectations.

Year of publication: 2,008 Publication: Bangkok, E-Leader Conference, 2008. Pagination:   Authors: BRUNO, Léo. Type of Publication: Article Main Author: Bruno, Léo 1947- Other Authors: BRUNO, Léo. Summary: The study sought to evaluate the personal values profile, the predominant leadership styles, the leadership effectiveness, the relationship between personal values balance and leadership effectiveness, the relationship between leadership effectiveness and organizational differentiation, and the relationship between personal values balance and organizational differentiation of a group of Brazilian executives of several organizations. In order to evaluate the personal values profile a closed instrument of the rank order type has been developed and applied. To identify the predominant leadership styles, as well as the leadership effectiveness of the involved executives, it has been used an instrument available in the market. To verify the relationship between personal values balance and leadership effectiveness, it has been used the linear regression method computing the linear correlation coefficient between the before mentioned variables, involving 400 executives. To compute the organizational differentiation, an existing model, the Organizational Differentiation Model, has been applied leading to the organizational differentiation index for each one of the 48 organizations involved. To investigate the relationship between leadership effectiveness, taken the average value per organization, and organizational differentiation, it has been used the linear regression computing the linear correlation coefficient between the before mentioned variables. The same procedure was used to investigate the relationship between personal values balance, taken the average value per organization, and organizational differentiation. The study has shown that the executives have an unbalance in their personal values profile, with predominance of economic and theoretical values. Additionally the study has uncovered lack of flexibility regarding the leadership styles, presenting styles of selling and sharing ideas as dominants. The study also showed that the leadership effectiveness of the involved executives was at a moderate level. Finally, the research pointed out a high positive relationship between personal values balance and leadership effectiveness, and, furthermore, it showed that both variables present a high positive relationship with the overall success of organizations measured by their organizational differentiation indexes. Language: Inglês Reference Number: 005:316.46 B898l 2008