Articles

Follower perceptions of the emotional intelligence of change leaders: A qualitative study (with Roy Smollan), Leadership (2011)

We present and explore a follower-centric model of how employees perceive the emotional intelligence (EI)...

 

Exploring distributed leadership in the small business context (with Jason Cope and Steve Kempster), International journal of management reviews (2011)

Entrepreneurial ventures are often established, controlled and led through the commitment of individuals. This article...

 

Grounded theory and leadership research: A critical realist perspective (with Stephen Kempster), The leadership quarterly (2011)

The methodology of grounded theory has great potential to contribute to our understanding of leadership...

 

Islamic organizational leadership within a Western society: The problematic role of external context (with Nezar Faris), The leadership quarterly (2011)

This research tests qualitatively the relationship between leadership, organizational culture and organizational effectiveness in Islamic...

 

Consensual commitment: A grounded theory of the meso-level influence of organizational design on leadership and decision-making (with Paul Rowland), The leadership quarterly (2009)

This research examined the relationship between organizational design and leadership in decision-making teams. It used...

 

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Exploring co-produced autoethnography (with Stephen Kempster and James Stewart), Business papers (2008)

The paper explores co-produced autoethnography in the development of situated leadership practice of a Chief...

 

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The thing about metaphors and leadership, Business papers (2008)

Metaphors help with our sense-making. They can convey meaning in a very efficient way. The...

 

Viewing the leadership narrative through alternate lenses: An autoethnographic investigation, Management revue: The international review of management studies (2008)

This conceptual-theoretical article revisits the work of Parry and Hansen on the nature of the...

 

Telling the whole story: The case for organizational autoethnography (with Maree Boyle), Culture & organization (2007)

We propose that autoethnography has a fruitful contribution to make to organizational research. The ethnographic...

 

The organizational story as leadership (with Hans Hansen), Leadership (2007)

Leaders are often noted for providing a compelling vision that inspires followers to act to...

 

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Qualitative method for leadership research: Now there’s a novel idea!, Compliance and regulatory journal- The journal of the Australasian Compliance Institute (2006)

This is one of my earliest journal articles, and remains my most cited and probably...

 

Researching the trainability of transformational organisational leadership (with Paresha N. Sinha), Human resource development international (2005)

Findings about the effectiveness of leadership training vary. This research tests for the effectiveness of...

 

Comparative modelling of the social processes of leadership in work units, Journal of management & organization (2004)

This research tests the extent to which the social processes of leadership, as derived from...

 

Identifying paradox: A grounded theory of leadership in overcoming resistance to change (with Melanie M. Kan), The leadership quarterly (2004)

The full grounded theory method was used in the present study to investigate nursing leadership...

 

Leader career development: Who should take responsibility? (with Sarah B. Proctor-Thomson), Asia-Pacific journal of human resources (2003)

In a world of flexible, changing organisational trends the requirement for good managerial leadership has...

 

Leadership, culture and performance: The case of the New Zealand public sector (with Sarah B. Proctor-Thomson), Journal of change management (2003)

Using comparative structural equation modelling, the present study attempts to test hypothesised relationships between manifestations...

 

Books

A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about studying leadership (with Brad Jackson), Business papers (2008)

Leadership is one of the most popular and rapidly growing fields within business. Yet confusion...

 

Book Chapters

Leadership and organization theory, SAGE handbook of leadership (2011)

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Organization theory and organizational behaviour are the chief areas within which leadership theory and research...

 

Organizational autoethnography (with Maree Boyle), The SAGE handbook of organizational research methods (2009)

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Our aim for this chapter is to begin a long and hopefully fruitful...

 

Metaphors in leadership, Contemporary perspectives on leadership: Focus and meaning for ambiguous times (2009)
 

Leadership in organizations (with Alan Bryman), The Sage handbook of organization studies (2006)

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Leadership has long been a major area of interest among social scientists and...

 

‘How?’ and ‘Why?’: Theory emergence and using the grounded theory method to determine levels of analysis, Multi-level issues in organizational behavior and strategy (2003)

The grounded theory method is more appropriate than just a grounded theory “approach,” for teasing...

 

Conference Papers

Testing the notion of charismatic leadership in organizations as a 'love story' (with Steve Kempster), 24th annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management conference (ANZAM): Managing for unknowable futures (2010)

Charisma and love are conceptually similar. Both are active or processual constructs. Hence, we have...

 

The attributed emotional intelligence of change leaders: A qualitative study (with Roy Smollan), 23rd ANZAM conference 2009 'sustainability management and marketing' (2009)

Organisational change is a potentially affective experience. The relationship between emotional intelligence and the leadership...

 

Metaphor and emotion in organizational innovation: A qualitative questionnaire design, Paper presented at the International Society for Research on the Emotions conference (ISRE) 2007 (2007)

In this presentation, I report on empirical research based on a qualitative questionnaire, which was...

 

Walking the talk: The nature and role of ‘leadership culture’ within organizational cultures (with Paul Aitken), Paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) 19th annual conference (2005)

The paper develops and explores the construct leadership culture with reference to organisation culture/s. A...

 

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Self-reflective management learning: Toward an autoethnographic approach (with Regina E. Gockel), Paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) 18th annual conference (2004)

This research uses autoethnography within a business/management context. The first author explains her experiences in...

 

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Social processes of leadership: A new perspective on leadership and its effect on work behaviour (with Ronald Fischer), Paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) 18th annual conference (2004)

The paper presents a new model of social processes of leadership and their influence on...

 

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The lived experience as leadership development (with Stephen Kempster), Paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) 18th annual conference (2004)

This paper explores the lived experience of leadership development within an individual organisation as seen...

 

Leadership: Getting the best out of your people, Invited keynote address to the Australian Amusement, Leisure and Recreation Association (AALARA) conference and exhibition (2004)

Based on findings from research in Australia, New Zealand and from around the world, Ken...