Leadership as a determinant of need fulfillment: implications for meta-theory, methods, and practice.

ABSTRACT: Of all the most prominent business concepts (e.g., DE&I, employee well-being, employee engagement, organizational culture, etc.) none rivals leadership in terms of public interest and annual monetary investment. Despite the obvious importance of leadership as a determinant of many important outcomes, the concept of leadership has been surprisingly hard to pin down, lacking consensus as to its precise meaning. As numerous authors introduce ever more constructs (e.g., servant leadership, toxic leadership, sustainable leadership, transformational leadership, etc.), the leadership concept has become emblematic of the problem of construct proliferation. Like the related fields of employee engagement, subjective well-being, and organizational culture, the leadership field is in desperate

SUBMITTER: Pincus JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11337100 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature