Executive job demands: New insights for explaining strategic decisions and leader behaviors

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Hambrick, DC; Finkelstein, S; Mooney, AC
• 署名单位: Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Dartmouth College; Stevens Institute of Technology
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 472-491
• 关键词: HIGH-VELOCITY ENVIRONMENTS; Impression management; TOP-MANAGEMENT; CURVILINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MANAGERIAL DISCRETION; ACTIVATION THEORY; ISSUE DIAGNOSIS; EMPIRICAL-TEST; performance; stress

摘要

Executive jobs vary widely in the difficulty they pose for their incumbents, yet research on top executives and strategic decision making has largely ignored this reality. We build on work in industrial/organizational psychology to develop the construct of executive job demands; discuss its major determinants; propose some of its key implications for strategic choices and leadership behaviors; and propose the usefulness of this construct in advancing research on numerous fronts, including agency theory, executive compensation, and upper echelons.