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- Clemenson, Barbara (x)
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Show moreIn the worlds of both practice and scholarship, people are focusing on the importance of leaders’ values and authentic actions to the ethical operations of their organizations. At the same time, enterprises are struggling to attract and retain talented employees. Our qualitative research analyzed the values of leaders in seven different organizations – for profit, nonprofit, and public institutions – and compared their self-proclaimed values with their employees’ perceptions of them and of their values. We focused specifically on leaders’ values concerning their followers, and examined the impact that leaders’ value content and integrity had on employees’ commitment to their establishment, and to their sense of worth and value to the organization. We discovered that the simplest indications of leaders’ regard often spoke most powerfully to employees of their worth, whereas employers’ self-advancement and insensitivity to their workers profoundly increased their dissatisfaction and disengagement. We also learned that although leaders’ value actions deeply influenced their followers, and were instrumental in recruiting and retaining highly qualified individuals to their organizations, most employees made decisions concerning remaining at their jobs based upon their time of life and/or their perceived lack of options.
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Show moreNonprofit leaders are frequently passionate about their organizations, many having devoted their lives and sacrificed significant material benefits for the sake of their causes. Often, though, this intense devotion unconsciously engenders an attitude of ownership towards their organizations (“This is my cause,” “I know best,” “No one else could possibly care/know/do as much as I do.”), rather than an attitude of stewardship (“We must welcome the best and all work in partnership together to address this great cause, and see that it continues addressing this need long after we are gone.”). This ethnographic study examined one nonprofit organization that espoused and essentially practiced the value of stewardship, to discover the attributes that created and perpetuated that culture. We uncovered critical organizational/systemic and personal/leadership traits that stimulate or obstruct stewardship in nonprofit organizations, which inform both governance and human resource practice.
Doctorate of Management Programs
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