TY - JOUR
T1 - Seeing eye to eye
T2 - can leadership training align perceptions of leadership?
AU - An, Seung Ho
AU - Jensen, Ulrich Thy
AU - Bro, Louise Ladegaard
AU - Andersen, Lotte Bøgh
AU - Ladenburg, Jacob
AU - Meier, Kenneth J.
AU - Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - There is a huge gap between how employees see leaders’ behavior and how leaders see themselves regardless of sector and functional area. Because this gap can be a serious problem in managing organizations, scholars have investigated how the gap can be reduced. This article focuses on leadership training and tests whether and under what conditions it narrows the gap. Using quantitative and qualitative data from a randomized field experiment with several hundred Danish leaders from public and private organizations, we find that a yearlong leadership training course decreases the differences between leader and employee perceptions of transformational and transactional leadership behaviors in public sector organizations but not in private organizations. The findings imply that leadership training can be one way for public organizations to align perceptions of leadership.
AB - There is a huge gap between how employees see leaders’ behavior and how leaders see themselves regardless of sector and functional area. Because this gap can be a serious problem in managing organizations, scholars have investigated how the gap can be reduced. This article focuses on leadership training and tests whether and under what conditions it narrows the gap. Using quantitative and qualitative data from a randomized field experiment with several hundred Danish leaders from public and private organizations, we find that a yearlong leadership training course decreases the differences between leader and employee perceptions of transformational and transactional leadership behaviors in public sector organizations but not in private organizations. The findings imply that leadership training can be one way for public organizations to align perceptions of leadership.
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U2 - 10.1080/10967494.2020.1763533
DO - 10.1080/10967494.2020.1763533
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85086345377
SN - 1096-7494
VL - 25
SP - 2
EP - 23
JO - International Public Management Journal
JF - International Public Management Journal
IS - 1
ER -