Management Team Leaders Research Articles

Gender diversity and sustainability responsiveness: evidence from Nigerian fixed money deposit banks

This paper aims to explore the impact of gender diversity on firms’ sustainability responsiveness in ensuring collective drive toward achieving sustainable development goals (agenda) for Nigeria. This study explored female engagement from three major platforms, namely women as directors, management team leaders, and female workforce. The data used to conduct this study were derived from the annual reports of the sampled banks spanning through the period of 2013–2016. However, while data for this study were analyzed using EViews statistical tool, the sustainability reporting data were ascertained using the content analysis method. The outcome of this study depicts that female directors, female workforce, and women in the management team all had an adverse and positive association with sustainability reporting. However, this association was all insignificant. This further buttresses that gender diversity was not the major driving force behind the sustainability reporting of the sampled banks in Nigeria. This is because the sector is highly regulated. Hence, the study recommends that notwithstanding the outcome, in attaining the sustainable development goals (SDGs), there is a need to have more female representation on the strategic position of authority.

Crisis management in public administration: The three phases model for safety incidents

This study aims to investigate the factors that affect crisis management in public administration for safety incidents, during pre-crisis, crisis and post crisis phase. The sample is comprised by 177 experienced in crisis management participants representing government, public organizations and security/armed forces in Greece. Data were collected by means of structured questionnaires in a series of personal interviews. Results indicate that the ability of crisis management team leader and members to make right decisions, the internal and external communication and crises type are predictors of the three phases of crisis management (pre-crisis, crisis and post crisis) in public administration. Implications for management include the need to implement cultural and structural changes, develop crisis management team leader’s ability to make decisions in conditions of urgency conditions, to transform internal formal communication channels and procedures and to redesign external communication strategy in order to manage effectively today’s safety incidents in a dynamic and unpredictable environment.

Becoming Salient: The TMT Leader’s Role in Shaping the Interpretive Context of Paradoxical Tensions

How do paradoxical tensions become salient in organizations over time? Ambidexterity and paradox studies have, thus far, primarily focused on how tensions inside organizations are managed after they have been rendered salient for actors. Using a longitudinal, embedded case study of four strategic business units within a media organization, we theorize the role of the top management team leader’s practices in enabling tensions to become salient for their respective lower-level managers when there are initial differences in how tensions are interpreted across levels. Our findings extend a dynamic equilibrium model of organizing by adding interpretive context as an enabling condition that shapes the emergence of salience through the provision of a constellation of cues that guide sensemaking. Informed by a practice-based perspective on paradox, we also contribute a conceptual model of leadership as practice, and outline the implications for ambidexterity studies.

A Torrent of Consequences

A Torrent of Consequences

A CONTEXTUAL STUDY OF ENTREPRENEUR DISPOSITIONAL OPTIMISM: IMPLICATIONS FOR NEW VENTURE PERFORMANCE.

Using a national random sample of 201 founders who were the top management team leaders of their firms, the current study examines a contextual model of entrepreneur dispositional optimism by evaluating its interaction with entrepreneurial experience and industry environmental dynamism on new venture performance.