It's only with the Practice of Leadership that we Change our World!
As we seek to expand our understanding of leaders and leadership, research provides the necessary insight into what works and what needs to change, to improve our leadership effectiveness. This section contains a collection of leadership related research that helps to keep us up-to-date with changes in leadership thinking and practice.
Management-Issues published an article, “Clarity the key to employee engagement” reporting on research by HR consultancy Watson Wyatt that found that… “… a poll of 14,000 employees across Europe has suggested that those companies that provide their employees with a clear ‘line of sight’ when it comes to vision and direction tend to have a [...]
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IBM released a study they’re calling the Global Human Capital Study 2008 and it provides some interesting reading and highlights the raising importance of leadership in organisations. The study is the result of interviews conducted with 400 human resources executives from 40 countries. It suggests that companies are putting their growth strategies at risk if [...]
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An interesting post from Tony Mayo, a Lecturer in the Organizational Behavior unit and the Director of the Leadership Initiative at Harvard Business School who has spent the past five years, with Nitin Nohria studying great business leadership in the United States. In their research they sought to answer the question… “What makes a leader [...]
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Fortune worked with human resources consultants Hewitt Associates and RBL Group to rank the world’s companies that do the best job of developing strong leaders, their research listed the following top 20 best companies at developing leadership: General Electric, Fairfield, CT, U.S. Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, OH, U.S. Nokia, Espoo, Finland Hindustan Unilever, Mumbai, India [...]
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Skip Reardon of Be Excellent provided a pointer to a study by the Hay Group, in partnership with Chief Executive, conducted a second year long study to identify the top companies that develop leaders systematically in ways that others acknowledge as productive of top talent. The study, considered 1,279 companies with at least $8 billion [...]
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