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Leadership development for general management
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/44026 Leadership development for general management Cook, Jonathan ichelp@gibs.co.za Marais, David UCTD Leadership -- Evaluation Executives -- Training of Qualitative research Organizational effectiveness Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2014. Leadership effectiveness, and how it affects organisational performance, is a much researched area of interest. This study focuses on those leadership skills and behaviours that possibly could increase leadership effectiveness at the senior level of leadership. This is a qualitative research project and the data has been collected using a combination of a qualitative questionnaire and in-depth interviews, conducted with highly qualified individuals with extensive leadership development experience. The research showed a significant relationship between leadership skills and leadership effectiveness and revealed that certain behaviours impact leadership effectiveness at the senior level. In addition it confirmed that leadership skills and behaviours that increase leadership effectiveness could be both continuous and discontinuous in nature when transitioning from the middle management to the senior level. Within the context of sub-Saharan Africa, adaptability and learning agility are especially important behaviours for leadership effectiveness at the senior level. The research also showed that interpersonal skills is the most important skill group to be developed when transitioning to the senior level and, of these, political and cultural sensitivity emerged as the most important interpersonal skill for leadership effectiveness at the senior level. zkgibs2015 Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MBA Unrestricted 2015-03-17T05:55:16Z 2015-03-17T05:55:16Z 2015-03-24 2014 Mini Dissertation Marais, D 2014, Leadership development for general management, MBA Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/44026> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/44026 en © 2014 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Leadership -- Evaluation Executives -- Training of Qualitative research Organizational effectiveness Leadership development for general management |
| title | Leadership development for general management |
| title_full | Leadership development for general management |
| title_fullStr | Leadership development for general management |
| title_full_unstemmed | Leadership development for general management |
| title_short | Leadership development for general management |
| title_sort | leadership development for general management |
| topic | UCTD Leadership -- Evaluation Executives -- Training of Qualitative research Organizational effectiveness |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/44026 |