manager behaviour Homework Help

• Task: You will select a topic covered during the semester and using either:
(a) data from an interview that you undertake with a manager,
(b) your knowledge of the behaviour of a manager whom you have worked for or with,
(c) your knowledge of the behaviour of a manager you have had the chance to observe,
• And ONE THEORY from the required reading or from your independent research on a topic covered this semester, you will answer the following questions:
1. How does the manager undertakes the activity being studied?
2. How effectively the theory explains what the manager is doing and why they are doing it?
3. How effective is the manager at this activity and how does the theory explain this?
4. What are the major strengths and weaknesses of the theory?
• The focus should be on the last three questions.

HERE ARE SOME THEORIES FOR YOUR HELP.

1. Theory of Transformational leadership Redux.

Bernard.m.Bass Leadership Quarterly 6(4), 463-478 – 1995

2. An evaluation of conceptual weakness in transformational and charismatic leadership theories.
Gary Yukl, Leadership quarterly, 10(2) 1990

3. The ethical dimension in transformational leadership. Anona Armstrong & Nuttawuth Muenjohn, Journal of Business Systems, Governance and Ethics, Vol 3. No 3, 2009

4. Responsible Leadership Outcomes via stakeholder CSR values: testing a values-centred model of Transformational Leadership.
Kevin S Groves & Michael A LaRocca
Journal of Business Ethics (2011)

5. Getting followers to Transcend their self-interest for the benefit of their company : Testing a core assumption of Transformational Leadership Theory.

David Effelsberg, Marc Solga, Jochen Gurt

Journal of Business Psychology(2014)

6. Transformational leadership theory: Using levels of analysis to determine boundary conditions.
Francis J Yammarino
Allan J Dubinsky

Personnel Psychology 1994, 47

7. Ethics, character and authentic transformational leadership behaviour
Bernard M Bass
Binghamton University

Leadership Quarterly, 10(2), 182-217