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Board members’ attitudes to CEO arrogance
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/23055 Board members’ attitudes to CEO arrogance Price, Gavin ichelp@gibs.co.za Toscano, Roberta UCTD Arrogance Chief executive officer (CEO) Board of directors Attitudes Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. As a CEO assumes an important role in an organization, his or her personality, with emphasis on arrogance, may affect a multitude of board members’ attitudes. This study gauges the effect of CEO arrogance on board members’ attitudes, which includes the engagement; cohesiveness; collaboration; job satisfaction; consensual decision making and desirability of the CEO. This investigation drew from existing literature that personality traits affect a leaders’ effectiveness in terms of group performance and followers’ satisfaction (Avolio, Gardner, Walumbwa, Luthans&May, 2004). Through experimental design, actual board meetings were simulated and CEO arrogance was manipulated, mainly by adapting the indicators from the Arrogance Scale in the Workplace developed by Johnson et al. (2010). Experiments were conducted in samples of MBA students and senior management consultants of roughly similar demographics. The findings confirmed that CEO arrogance has a detrimental effect on all the board members’ attitude. Arrogance accounted for almost 60 per cent of the board members’ attitudes ratings. This study is confirms that an arrogant CEO negatively affects the board member dynamics which are essential in maintaining an effective board. This urges the organizations to acquire non-arrogant CEOs to improve the organisation’s productivity. Alternatively, an organization can consider alternatives to dilute a CEO’s arrogance. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T14:24:32Z 2013-04-29 2013-09-06T14:24:32Z 2013-04-25 2012 2013-03-09 Dissertation Toscano, R 2012 Board members’ attitudes to CEO arrogance , MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23055 > F13/4/289/zw http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23055 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03092013-161558/ © 2012 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Arrogance Chief executive officer (CEO) Board of directors Attitudes Board members’ attitudes to CEO arrogance |
| title | Board members’ attitudes to CEO arrogance |
| title_full | Board members’ attitudes to CEO arrogance |
| title_fullStr | Board members’ attitudes to CEO arrogance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Board members’ attitudes to CEO arrogance |
| title_short | Board members’ attitudes to CEO arrogance |
| title_sort | board members attitudes to ceo arrogance |
| topic | UCTD Arrogance Chief executive officer (CEO) Board of directors Attitudes |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23055 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03092013-161558/ |