Original scientific paper
Levels of leadership development and top management's effectiveness: Is there a clear-cut relationship?
Mia Glamuzina
; United World College Mostar, Logos Centre Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
This paper is focused on the influence of leadership development on top management's effectiveness, both from theoretical and empirical aspect. The creation of an original theoretical model of leadership development process and top management's effectiveness has the purpose of determining impact, direction and intensity of the relationship between leadership development and top management's effectiveness and offers a new methodological approach to leadership classification using the criteria of developed/undeveloped leadership process and measurement of top management's effectiveness based on contemporary conditions. A new composite variable for measuring leadership development was created and the research implied it strongly correlates with the indicators of top management's effectiveness, both in internal and external perspectives. Empirical verification of the model was conducted on the sample of 106 companies and this deepened the insight into the modern leadership paradigm, its development and affirmation in the area of management effectiveness and it confirmed the research hypotheses. The nature of relationship between management effectiveness and the main dimensions of leadership process – setting direction (by creating vision, explaining the whole and setting the strategy), including people (by communicating vision, building teams and seeking commitment) and motivating (inspiring, empowering and meeting the needs of subordinates) – was determined and it was proved that leadership development has a positive effect on the effectiveness of top management.
Keywords
leadership development; company performance; internal and external perspectives
Hrčak ID:
139122
URI
Publication date:
14.5.2015.
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