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“A Noble Endeavor”: Comments From The Yearly Review Editor, Mary Uhl-Bien Jan 2008

“A Noble Endeavor”: Comments From The Yearly Review Editor, Mary Uhl-Bien

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

This issue comprises The Leadership Quarterly Yearly Review of Leadership (LQYR) for 2008, a series that was started by Jerry Hunt in 2000. With this series, Jerry displayed his tremendous talent as a visionary and leading edge thinker in bringing us a series of articles from top and emerging scholars not only in leadership, but in other areas Jerry saw that could inform leadership. The series has become a cornerstone of LQ, and the impact is demonstrated by the fact that, since its inception, LQYR articles have been regular recipients of the Best Paper Award in LQ. We …


How Transformational Leadership Weaves Its Influence On Individual Job Performance: The Role Of Identification And Efficacy Beliefs, Fred O. Walumbwa, Bruce Avolio, Weichun Zhu Jan 2008

How Transformational Leadership Weaves Its Influence On Individual Job Performance: The Role Of Identification And Efficacy Beliefs, Fred O. Walumbwa, Bruce Avolio, Weichun Zhu

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

This study examined how transformational leadership directly and indirectly relates to supervisory-rated performance collected over time including 437 participants employed by 6 U.S. banking organizations in the midwest. Results revealed that one’s identification with his or her work unit, self-efficacy, and means efficacy were related to supervisor-rated performance. The effect of transformational leadership on rated performance was also mediated by the interaction of identification and means efficacy, as well as partially mediated by the interaction of self-efficacy and means efficacy. Implications for research, theory, and practice are discussed.


Environmental Context, Managerial Cognition, And Strategic Action: An Integrated View, Sucheta Nadkarni, Pamela S. Barr Jan 2008

Environmental Context, Managerial Cognition, And Strategic Action: An Integrated View, Sucheta Nadkarni, Pamela S. Barr

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

This study addresses an apparent disconnect between two views of strategic action: the “economic view,” which contends that industry structure is the primary influence on strategic action, and the “cognitive view,” which suggests that managerial cognition drives strategic action. We argue that this disconnect has created artificial boundaries between the two perspectives and has limited our ability to develop holistic explanations of strategic action. In response, we develop an integrated model that answers two questions: 1) Does industry context affect managerial cognition? 2) Does managerial cognition mediate the relationship between industry context and strategic responses to environmental changes? To examine …


Student Satisfaction With Online Learning Effectiveness At A Connecticut Community College, Alina R. Payne Jan 2008

Student Satisfaction With Online Learning Effectiveness At A Connecticut Community College, Alina R. Payne

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

In recent years, institutions of higher education have dramatically increased the number of online courses and degree programs offered to students, and yet it remains unclear what factors determine student satisfaction with online course and instructor effectiveness. Accordingly, the purpose of this exploratory correlation study was to examine how factors related to courses and instructors contributed to student perceptions of course quality (CQ) and instructor effectiveness (IE). Six stepwise regression procedures assessed the effects of specific course and instructor characteristics on perceptions of CQ and IE across one year of course evaluation data collected in a northeastern 2-year college. Results …