Study 1 - How Leaders Become Leaders?
Collaboration between Leadership Behavioral Laboratory and Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) , Lessons of Experience (LOE) in Asia explore the career and life experiences that shape leadership development in India and China. The study builds on more than two decades of original CCL research with thousands of leaders and companies from around the globe. The main objective is to study how the life experiences shape leadership development; to analyze the influencing styles of the event on leadership; to address the following questions: what are the processes by which executive learn, grow and change over the course of their careers? What factors differentiate successful executives from those who derail at senior levels? More than 20 big size companies will participate in this study. A sample of 10-15 senior executives will be interviewed face-to-face in every organization.
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Study 2 - The Impact of Status on Quality of Social Interactions
The goal of this research is to examine and provide knowledge about factors that have profound influence on the quality of social interactions at work.
Many of the social interactions involve three broad categories of factors: One is the outcomes people receive, such as the amount of annual increase employees get from the company, or the profit people generate from the contract with the client. The second factor in most interactions involves the process that people experience with. For example, whether the representative from the other department treats us with dignity and respect in the interaction, or follows the procedures/policies set up by the firm. The third important factor in social interactions is relative status of the people involved. Status differences permeate organizational lives. The people with whom we interact include higher status others (e.g., our supervisors, or colleagues from a more influential department), equal status others (e.g., peer group in the same department), or lower status others (e.g., our direct reports/administrative assistants, or colleagues from a less influential department/division). The current study is to examine how these various factors independently and in combination affect the overall quality of social interactions among employees at work.
This research is a collaboration with Professor Ya-Ru Chen at Rutgers Business School and Professor Steve Blader at Stern School of Business of New York University.
Study 3 - Impact of Leadership on Team Performance
Escalating trends of globalization and fast developing Chinese economy have made team-performance management more challenging. There has been an increasing acceptance of the proposition that leadership is a significant factor in the success of team performance. But different leadership styles have different effectiveness. So what is the result of empowering leadership on subordinates and team's performance? Is the relationship different in teams with different team identity? And is the influence mediated by subordinates' psychological empowerment? To know the mechanism of leadership on performance through Situational factors is valuable for organizational managers to lead their team. So the goal of this research is to examine and provide knowledge about how leadership has profound influence through other variables on the performance of subordinates and team at work. So the objectives of the study are:
-to study the leadership behavioral characteristics of Chinese executives;
-to analyze the influencing styles of the leadership of Chinese executives;
-to research on leadership effectiveness on group dynamics and team performance in Chinese organizations;
-to research and analyze the context and individual factors that may influence the effectiveness of various leadership styles.
Behavioral Lab Simulation and Leadership Assessment Questionnaires will be selected in the study.
EMBA students participating in the Behavior Simulation is the target sample group. Behavioral simulation and scenario will be planned. Questionnaire survey and relevant data will be collected from the respondents' organizations
Study 4 - Lessons of Experience for women leaders in China
This research aims to reveal the internal world, successful factors, multiple roles that they have to play, unique charms and exceptional organizing and managing abilities of women entrepreneurs to help Chinese women managers realize their own potentials, develop a broad world view and find a suitable career path in the context of globalization.
20 case studies of successful women executives in China will be conducted.
