Leadership in the North American environmental sector: Values, leadership styles, and contexts of environmental leaders and their organizations

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Egri, CP; Herman, S
• 署名单位: Simon Fraser University; University System Of New Hampshire; Keene State College
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/1556356
• 发表日期: 2000
• 页码: 571-604
• 关键词: NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL-MOVEMENTS; UNITED-STATES; management; PERSPECTIVES; EVOLUTION; extension; paradigm; GENDER

摘要

Interview and questionnaire data obtained from 73 leaders of nonprofit environmentalist and for-profit environmental product and service organizations showed that these leaders' personal values were more ecocentric, open to change, and self-transcendent than those of managers in other types of organizations. These leaders also acted as master managers, performing both transformational and transactional leadership behaviors. As hypothesized, nonprofit environmentalist organizations were highly receptive contexts for transformational leadership, whereas for-profit environmental organizations were at least moderately receptive in this regard. We used these findings to develop a preliminary model of environmental leadership.