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In Search of a Star Trek Affective State
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Author(s): Jonatan Jelen (Parsons The New School for Design, USA), Billy Brocato (Sam Houston State University, USA), Thomas M. Schmidt (University of Phoenix, USA)and Stuart S. Gold (Walden University, USA)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 18
Source title:
Organizational Integration of Enterprise Systems and Resources: Advancements and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): João Eduardo Quintela Alves de Sousa Varajão (University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal), Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Portugal)and Antonio Trigo (Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1764-3.ch003
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Abstract
The authors’ meta-analysis showed that leadership studies have ignored pioneering research into the heuristic tools people employ that affect decision-making and, subsequently, judgments regarding effective group performance in organizational settings. The chapter suggests a postmodern model superseding the modernist perspectives whose theoretical grounding remain mired in Frederick Taylor’s (1911) scientific management theories. The authors’ meta-analysis identified salient characteristics found in the selected leadership research, allowing for a disambiguation of the transformational and charismatic leadership operational traits. The meta-analysis comprised selected research studies from 1999 to 2008, and revealed distinctive intrapersonal (5 organizational referents) and interpersonal (5 social identity/normative referents) icons that inform emergent leader and follower behaviors. The chapter proposes a postmodern evaluation matrix to reveal the structural biases and modernist conceptual ambiguities tied to the leader-worker dyadic in varying organizational contexts. The findings suggest that leadership researchers should consider complex behavioral decision-making processes that result in emergent group performances instead of focusing on a leader’s ephemeral behavioral traits. A postmodern approach also helps leadership researchers identify a group’s performance on a continuum that would demonstrate their willingness to act in a way that tests individual limits, stretches group boundaries, and exceeds company goals, what the authors term a Star Trek Affective State.
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