Journal of Management Development: Volume 40 Issue 1

Human strengths: a systematic conceptual review, conceptualizing employee strengths at work and a framework for management development

Vikas Rai Bhatnagar, Ajay K. Jain, Shiv S. Tripathi, Sabir Giga

Utilizing employee strengths contributes to humanizing organizations. However, the current concept of strengths has evolved from the domain of social work, advanced by personality…

Preparing managers for a reconfigured world: management education's new gig

Nathan S. Hartman, Joy H. Karriker

The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the lack of a clear theoretical framework in management education programs to allow students to understand the world in which gig…

Effects of leader-member exchange ambivalence on work attitudes: a moderated mediation model

Decha Dechawatanapaisal

This study examines whether the relationship between ambivalence in leader-member exchange (LMX) and career commitment is influenced by organizational embeddedness as a mediating…

Toward better understanding developmental reflection differences for use in management development research and practice

Todd Maurer, Nikolaos Dimotakis, Greg Hardt, A.J. Corner

We introduce a new approach to developmental reflection in which the focus is on differences in how people reflect. When reflecting on challenging experiences, people achieve…

The interaction between leadership styles and their followers' human capital: a correspondence analysis approach applied to micro-sized businesses

Mohammed Ali Al-Awlaqi, Ammar Mohamed Aamer, Maged Mohammed Barahma, Mohamed Battour

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the tendency of leaders to select their followers depending on their human capital factors such as age, education level, previous…

Negative affect as a mediator of the relationship between emotional intelligence and uncivil workplace behaviour among managers

Natasha Loi, Carey Golledge, Nicola Schutte

To improve understanding of uncivil workplace behaviour, the present study sought to examine the relationships between emotional intelligence, positive affect, negative affect and…