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Exploring The Impact Of Shared Leadership Styles And Nonprofit Performance, Will Brown
Exploring The Impact Of Shared Leadership Styles And Nonprofit Performance, Will Brown
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Empirical data have not adequately revealed current methods of nonprofit leadership in a way that reflects shared leadership in the nonprofit sector leaving nonprofit organizations (NPOs) at a disadvantage in relation to understanding and describing leadership effectiveness. Using a conceptual framework that incorporated organizational theory, shared leadership theory, path goal theory, transformational theory, leader member exchange, and fund development theory, this mini ethnographic study was conducted to explore the effect of leadership styles in shared leadership situations and the impact of matched and unmatched leadership styles on NPO funding performance. With the use of purposeful sampling to conduct the study, …
Transformational Leadership Strategies For Addressing Voluntary Employee Turnover, Chris A. Osisiogu
Transformational Leadership Strategies For Addressing Voluntary Employee Turnover, Chris A. Osisiogu
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
For every standard deviation of increase in employee turnover, organizations could suffer a roughly 27% decline in financial performance. Current voluntary employee turnover rates hover between 15% - 40% and the associated unquantifiable indirect costs affecting customer loyalty and creating reputational risks for business leaders. Furthermore, when employees leave an organization for another, a minimum of 95% leave with trade secrets, strategic skills, and acquired knowledge. As a result, turnover has evolved into a significant concern for organizational leaders. Using the transformational leadership concept, the purpose of this single case study was to explore the leadership strategies that bank leaders …
South Carolina State Government: Organizational Succession Plans, Angela West-Barnett
South Carolina State Government: Organizational Succession Plans, Angela West-Barnett
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
In the South Carolina state government, 43.4% of all full-time equivalent employees will be eligible to retire by the mid- to late-2020s. The potential loss of core organizational knowledge may occur as a result of the retirement of seasoned employees. Grounded by the transformational leadership theory, this qualitative case study explored the successful succession strategies of 8 Certified Public Managers (CPMs) in South Carolina state government organizations. Purposeful sampling led to selecting the 8 CPMs who each had more than 11 years of experience managing employees and each directly influenced the programmatic operations for their respective state government organizations. Data …