Discuss the following:
1. Select your articles from legitimate journals relating to HRM, Training, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Development, Management, etc. Sources from the internet (blogs, wikis, news reports) are not considered legitimate sources of information.
2. The Journal Article Reviews for this class are to follow the five paragraph APA format as follows:
1. You must APA Style Citation
2. Purpose of the study/article
3. Method/Procedures used
4. Outcome/summary of major points covered
5. Applications of the study/article
6. Your reactions
One to three pages total. Double space your assignment. All reviews are to be submitted through Turnitin. A Turnitin value above 18% is considered too high.
Example
Offermann, L. and Peta, H. (1996). Leadership Behavior and Subordinate Stress: A 3600 View. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 1(4), 382 – 390.
1. The purpose of this article is to examine multiple facets of the relationship between leadership behaviors and subordinate work stress focusing specifically on the perceptions of both groups: To what extent do leaders and subordinates view the causes and effects of stress in the same way?
2. Participants were 343 mid-level managers of a multinational bank. The Survey of Management Practices was used to elicit a 360o assessment of leader behavior and subordinate responses. The data were analyzed utilizing correlation, factor analysis, and regression procedures.
3. The researchers found that what leaders believe relates to subordinate stress does not always match what subordinates themselves believe enhances or reduces stress. For instance, leaders exhibiting high controlling behaviors may believe that by being mindful of the details and monitoring employee performance, they are relieving employees of the “stress” of having to attend
to these issues. From the subordinates perspective such behavior increases rather than reduces stress. On the other hand, some leaders may perceive that delegation and encouraging participation as being factors which increase
subordinate stress, a view not shared by the subordinates themselves.
In examining the results by staff level (professional or clerical) the researchers found that the relationship between leader behavior and stress level to be stronger for clerical personnel despite the fact that reported stress levels were higher for professional staff. The researchers suggested that in instances where leader instructions lacked clarity, professional staff were better able to set goals of their own and also noted that professional staff typically participated in more extensive support networks than was typical for clerical personnel.
4. This article underscores the need for leader support in five areas – work facilitation, approachability, team building, interest in subordinate growth, and building trust. It also highlights the importance of delegation and encouraging participation along with emotional support as means of decreasing employee stress. The findings such that leaders and subordinates may not share common views regarding what behaviors serve to increase or decrease stress. This article relates both to the material on stress and well-being in the workplace, but also highlights that some supervisors make the fundamental attribution area of attributing stress to the employees themselves without awareness of their own role and the climate being provided for the employee.
5. I learned that it is important for a leader to be aware of the effects of his behavior and not to assume that the behavior being exhibited by a subordinate has to do with factors not related to the manner in which the subordinate is being led.