Journal of Management Development: Volume 35 Issue 5

Fostering creativity understanding: Case study of an exercise designed for a large undergraduate business cohort at EDHEC Business School

Véronique Boulocher-Passet, Peter Daly, Isabelle Sequeira

The purpose of this paper is to encourage initiatives to train large cohorts of undergraduate students for creativity understanding. The authors describe a case study of a…

Leadership Team Tool for better meaning making: Developing leadership team communication and reflexivity

Eerika Hedman

– The purpose of this paper is to present a Leadership Team Tool for developing reflexivity in the context of leadership teams.

The state of risk management in business schools

Ulrich Hommel, Wenwei Li, Anna M. Pastwa

The spread of entrepreneurial rent seeking (or entrepreneurialism for short) and market-based performance measurement (accreditation, rankings) have transformed many business…

The impact of family roles on employee’s attitudes and behaviors

Scott L Boyar, Teresa A. Wagner, Amanda Petzinger, Ronald B. McKinley

The purpose of this paper is to examine two important family roles, financial and caregiver, and their impact on four relevant outcome variables: absenteeism, partial absences…

Leadership behaviours and capabilities in Syria: an exploratory qualitative approach

Majd Megheirkouni

The purpose of this paper is to understand the nature of leadership development in Syria, by answering specific research questions: what are the types of leadership behaviours and…

Diversification, family involvement and firm performance: Empirical evidence from Italian manufacturing firms

Emanuela Delbufalo, Sara Poggesi, Simone Borra

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of product and geographic diversification on the performance of Italian manufacturing firms and evaluate the moderating role…

A Jordanian empirical study of the associations among transformational leadership, transactional leadership, knowledge sharing, job performance, and firm performance: A structural equation modelling approach

Ra'ed Masa'deh, Bader Yousef Obeidat, Ali Tarhini

Knowledge sharing adoption has been considered as a significant practice for organizations. However, there is a modest empirical confirmation to indicate how these organizations…

A discussion forum on managerial interpersonal skills

Gerard Beenen, Shaun Pichler

Managerial interpersonal skills (MIPS) are widely considered important for management development, yet the nature of MIPS has eluded researchers. The purpose of this paper is to…