New Ideas about Leadership at Work in the Workplace

Abstract

This study examines the impact of managerial leadership theories on the way mangers in organizations across US perceive and define their organizational performance. The analysis focuses on the model of managerial efficiency described by the open systems, organizational learning and systematic thinking theories which stress the need for extensive authority decentralization and moderate formalization of organizational practices in order to ensure performance in organizations that function in a continuously changing environment. Results of analysis of National Organization Survey (NOS) data show that with regard to the need for decentralization, the theoretical model is indeed attuned with the way managers working under uncertainty understand and evaluate their organizational performance.