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The positive effect of leadership profile of managers on work environment and business performance

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  • Sarote Phornprapha
  • Potchanart Seebungkerd

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While quality of leadership is considered one of the key success factors of business performance, a pleasant work environment also plays a critical role in enabling employees to perform at their best. This detailed study of a group of Thai managers provides a close look at the leadership profiles of middle-level managers, and assesses their impact on business performance and on the work environment from the viewpoint of employees. The results confirm that strong leadership has a definite correlation with performance results and impact on the work environment. The result also showed a contrarian relationship between the work environment and business performance. In other words, happier teams usually delivered lower performances. Regardless of leadership abilities, the result showed that male managers created a better work environment than female managers but that teams led by female managers delivered a stronger business performance than teams led by male managers.

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  • Sarote Phornprapha & Potchanart Seebungkerd, 2007. "The positive effect of leadership profile of managers on work environment and business performance," International Journal of Management and Decision Making, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 8(2/3/4), pages 190-213.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijmdma:v:8:y:2007:i:2/3/4:p:190-213
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