Competências de Liderança e as suas influências no Desempenho Individual: No contexto da Marinha de Guerra Moçambicana (MGM)

No atual contexto organizacional que se encontra em constantes mudanças, os nossos líderes têm de estar prontos para encarar desafios cada vez mais complexos, requerendo dos mesmos um investimento e um ajustamento contínuo das práticas e competências de liderança, devendo conseguir potenciar nos seus colaboradores um vínculo forte com a organização que os possa conduzir a um maior desempenho, disponibilidade, e em contribuir para o sucesso da organização. Neste contexto, o presente estudo procura analisar relações que se estabelecem entre a perceção das competências funcionais de liderança e o desempenho individual dos militares da MGM, explorando o impacto das competências do líder ao nível do desempenho dos militares da Marinha, e ainda, perceber se a categoria impacta ao nível dos papéis de liderança percecionados e do desempenho individual requerido. A amostra em estudo foi constituída por 84 militares da Marinha de Guerra Moçambicana (Oficiais, Sargentos e Praças), à qual foi aplicado um inquérito por questionário constituído por três partes, análise das competências do líder, desempenho individual e variáveis demográficas. Para analisar as relações e as diferenças entre as variáveis em estudo recorreu-se ao teste de (r) Pearson. Os resultados obtidos forneceram suporte à primeira hipótese. Para analisarmos as diferenças de perceções das competências de liderança e das dimensões de desempenho entre categorias, recorreu-se ao teste de One-Way ANOVA Anova. Os resultados obtidos forneceram em parte suporte às duas últimas hipóteses. Este processo permitiu identificar que as competências de liderança percecionadas influenciam o desempenho, que a perceção das competências funcionais de liderança é diferente entre militares de diferentes categorias, e que o grau de desempenho é diferente entre militares de diferentes categorias.

How can IT professionals make the step into leadership roles?

Last year, Jisc began work with EDUCAUSE - the US organisation for IT professionals in higher education - to find out the skillset of the CIO of the future. One of the findings of our project was that many aspiring technology leaders find it difficult to make the step up. Louisa Dale, director Jisc group sector intelligence, talks through the learnings and opens a call for IT professionals to get involved in the next phase of work.

Leadership and performance in multicultural business environments a qualitative study in German-Colombian teams

Multicultural leadership is a topic a great interest in nowadays globalized work environment. Colombia emerges as an attractive marketplace with appealing business opportunities, especially for German enterprises. After presenting Colombia’s current political, social and economic situation, the thesis elaborates the complex subject of cultural differences while focusing on the peculiarities of German and Colombian national cultures. The resulting implications for a team’s collaboration and leader effectiveness are theoretically supported with reference to the landmark studies of Hofstede and GLOBE. By utilizing semi-structured interview techniques, a qualitative research enriches the previous findings and gives an all-encompassing insight in German-Colombian teamwork. The investigation identifies distinctive behavioral patterns and relations, which imply challenges and factors of success for multicultural team leaders. Finally, a categorical analysis examines the influence of cultural traits on team performance and evaluates the effectiveness of the applied leadership style.

Ligação entre a Liderança e a Performace através da Gestão Estratégica: Uma análise ao nível das Unidades de Saúde "Linking Leadership to Performance Through Strategic Management".

Esta dissertação pretende descobrir de que forma a Liderança pode influenciar o desenvolvimento da Estratégia de uma organização ou empresa, através de uma análise do seu desempenho. Abordando as temáticas então enunciadas, o objectivo deste estudo reside na avaliação da importância e contributo da Liderança ao nível da Gestão Estratégica implementada ao nível de uma unidade de saúde. A estrutura deste estudo envolve um enquadramento teórico da Liderança e da Estratégia, culminando na relação entre os dois conceitos. Seguidamente, evidencia uma abordagem à metodologia aplicada, culminando num estudo empírico às unidades de saúde analisadas. Pretende-se com isto que os conceitos estudados sejam adaptados a dois centros hospitalares pertencentes ao Distrito de Setúbal (o Centro Hospitalar de Setúbal - E.P.E., em conjunto com o Centro Hospitalar do Barreiro e Montijo - E.P.E.). Assim sendo, comparando diversos indicadores de actividades, dos recursos humanos e resultados financeiros de cada unidade hospitalar, com os resultados de entrevistas que avaliam na prática os conceitos da liderança e estratégia, as conclusões que se recolhem determinam que qualquer uma das temáticas abordadas é certamente uma parte essencial da gestão e que desta forma se mostram inevitavelmente ligadas e intrínsecas enquanto dotadas de uma correlação e dependência irrefutáveis. O resultado deste estudo, apresenta então um grande desafio para gestor, que reside em saber em que situações seguir ou alterar as suas estratégias permitindo assim gerar mais flexibilidade na conduta da sua actividade, em conjunto com a forma ou estilo mais correcto de liderar os seus seguidores, de forma a tornar os seus recursos humanos numa unidade sólida, harmonizada e orientado para a obtenção de um objectivo comum.

Quinn’s Leadership Roles: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis Study in Portuguese Health Services

Purpose: To evaluate psychometric properties of Quinn’s leadership questionnaire (CFV questionnaire; 1988) to the Portuguese health services. Design: Cross-sectional study, using the Quinn’s leadership questionnaire, administered to registered nurses and physicians in Portuguese health care services (N = 687). Method: Self-administered survey applied to two samples. In the first (of convenience; N = 249 Portuguese health professionals) were performed exploratory factor and reliability analysis to the CFV questionnaire. In the second sample (stratified; N = 50 surgical units of 33 Portuguese hospitals) was performed confirmatory factor analysis using LISREL 8.80. Findings: The first sample supported an eight-factor solution accounting for 65.46% of the variance, in an interpretable factorial structure (loadings> .50), with Cronbach’s α upper than .79. This factorial structure, replicated with the second sample, showed reasonable fit for each of the 8 leadership roles, quadrants, and global model. The models evidenced, generally, nomological validity, with scores between good and acceptable (.235 < x2/df < 2.055 e .00 < RMSEA < .077). Conclusions: Quinn’s leadership questionnaire presented good reliability and validity for the eight leadership roles, showing to be suitable for use in hospital health care context. Key-Words: Leadership; Quinn’s CVF questionnaire; health services; Quinn’s competing values.

The leader in you : developing your leadership potential

Leadership research demonstrates that there are serious shortcomings in the quality and competence of leaders in our organizations. The recent global financial crisis has also reminded us that, if our society and economies are to move forward sustainability, we must have the right kind of leaders and the right kind of leadership throughout our organizations. "The Leader in You: Developing Your Leadership Potential" has been framed to be useful to all individuals who are currently in leadership roles, from chief executives to frontline managers, and for those who wish to step up to a leadership role. Organizations can also utilize this book to assist their leaders to increase their leadership potential or to complement leadership development programs. If you want to search for and develop leadership qualities in yourself, then this book is for you. If you want to set a higher standard in your organization and you think leadership is a serious matter in the lives of other people, then this book is for you. In the process of self-reflection, "The Leader in You: Developing Your Leadership Potential" will enable you to develop an individual leadership profile and an individual skills profile, culminating in the development of a plan for leadership improvement. This book aims to couple these outcomes with exposure to some practical skills that leaders need to lead in every day environments. The first four chapters allow the reader to develop an understanding of the concepts that underpin leadership performance, and to undertake exercises to develop a comprehensive understanding of their values, behaviors and personality. That is, to understand who they are and why they behave the way they do. An individual leadership profile is developed at the end of these chapters. Then, the remaining chapters look at issues that leaders will face in contemporary society, and at the skills required to address them in everyday environments. An individual skills profile is developed at the end of these chapters culminating in the development of a plan for leadership improvement.

Transformational leadership within virtual teams: Examining the mediating influence of trust and role clarity for performance and knowledge sharing

Virtual teams differ from tradidonal, co-located teams in that they primarily communicate via informadon technolog}' such as email, video conferencing and web based coUaboradve environments rather than in a face-to-face medium. There has been a lack of empirical research into the influence that leadership has within virtual teams upon key outcomes such as performance and knowledge sharing. This paper examines antecedents of knowledge sharing and performance, namely role clarit)' and trust in a team leader. We predicted that transformadonal leadership would posidvely influence both performance and knowledge sharing within virtual teams. We also h^'pothesised that trust in a leader and role clarit)' would mediate both the associadon between transformadonal leadership and performance as well as the associadon between transformadonal leadership and knowledge sharing within virtual teams. Data was collected from a public sector organisadon using virtual teams, Pardcipants responded to a self-report quesdonnaire. Supervisor radngs of performance and knowledge sharing were also obtained. In general we found support for a posidve reladonship between transformadonal leadership and performance and knowledge sharing within virtual teams. Using mediated muldple regression, we found support for the mediadng role of trust in the leader and role clarit}' between transformadonal leadership and performance and knowledge sharing. Implicadons of the results are provided.

Values-driven leadership

The values of a leader set the culture of an organisation, determine the effectiveness of an organisation, and determine the success of an organisation. Understanding our values and being able to live our values adds significant emphasis to the leadership roles we perform in life. This book looks at where our values come from, and their role and impact in an organisational context. It offers a detailed conversation about values driven leadership - what it is and what it looks like.

Learning to lead : a social justice perspective on understanding elementary teacher leadership in Papua New Guinea

Leadership in elementary education is currently recognized as a political imperative in Papua New Guinea (PNG), as the nation develops strategies towards equitable access to schooling. One recent initiative aimed at building educational leadership was an intensive Australian Leadership Award Fellowship (ALAF) program funded by AusAID, involving a group of 10 teacher trainers from PNG. As part their involvement participants completed self-authored journal entries at the beginning and end of the leadership program. Participants were also involved in focus groups after completion of the initiative. Referring to the experiences of these teacher trainers, this paper draws on Nancy Fraser’s (2005, 2008) social justice framework to examine participants’ views of what constituted effective leadership in elementary education in PNG and how these views may have changed throughout the ALAF program. Key findings of this study included participants’ emphasis on relationships and valuing people in elementary education leadership contexts, participants’ concern about economic/financial barriers to effective leadership in the PNG context and participants’ perception of research as a way to support leadership roles.

Contextualizing a university-school STEM education collaboration : distributed and self-activated leadership for project outcomes

Implementing educational reform requires partnerships, and university-school collaborations in the form of investigative and experimental projects can aim to determine the practicalities of reform. However, there are funded projects that do not achieve intended outcomes. In the context of a new reform initiative in education, namely, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, this article explores the management of a government-funded project. In a university school partnership for STEM education, how can leadership be distributed for achieving project outcomes? Participants included university personnel from different STEM areas, school teachers and school executives. Data collected included observations, interviews, resource materials, and video and photographic images. Findings indicated that leadership roles were distributed and selfactivated by project partners according to their areas of expertise and proximal activeness to the project phases, that is: (1) establishing partnerships; (2) planning and collaboration; (3) project implementation; and (4) project evaluation and further initiatives. Leadership can be intentional and unintentional within project phases, and understanding how leadership can be distributed and selfactivated more purposefully may aid in generating more expedient project outcomes.

Developing a culture of peer review of teaching through a distributive leadership approach

Teaching is a core function of higher education and must be effective if it is to provide students with learning experiences that are stimulating, challenging and rewarding Obtaining feedback on teaching is indispensable to enhancing the quality of learning design, facilitating personal and/or professional development and maximising student learning outcomes. Peer review of teaching has the potential to improve the quality of teaching at tertiary level, by encouraging critical reflection on teaching, innovation in teaching practice and scholarship of teaching at all academic levels. However, embedding peer review within the culture of teaching and learning is a significant challenge that requires sustained commitment from senior leadership as well as those in leadership roles within local contexts.