Leadership Metaphors as expressions of Implicit Leadership Theories in Germany and the Czech Republic

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Implicit Theories about leader and follower or about leadership attributes and contexts are important to understand managerial leadership processes. In our attempt to understand leadership behaviours in Central and East European Countries (CEE), we address a widely neglected aspect of management behaviour in countries of transition. Conclusions With a closer look we can see that the factor in the German sample was dominate by the collaborative team orientation, which partly expressed participative behaviour either. On the contrary, to the GLOBE results, the administratively competent behaviour was found to be part of the German understanding of a transformational leader. The GLOBE methodology with its pre-defined factors and dimensions may have been an obstacle for the further in-depth analysis. The results for participative leadership have to consider this fact. If we take a closer look at notion of collaborative team orientation, which may indicate for some higher expectations towards participative leadership within the German sample. A Human orientation had the highest rating in the Czech sample and seemed to build a counterpoint to the strong focus on performance orientations and decisiveness. Finally yet importantly, the results for autonomous behaviour came close to the GLOBE results with the highest share for the Czech sample and close to the German sample.

leadership; implicit leadership theories; CEE countries

KEUSCHER, T.; KONEČNÁ, Z.

30. 4. 2019

VUT

Brno

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https://www.academia.edu/112763642/Leadership_Metaphors_as_expressions_of_Implicit_Leadership_Theories_in_Germany_and_the_Czech_Republic