CAREER: Leadership for Virtual Organizational Effectiveness

职业：虚拟组织效率的领导力

• 批准号: 1738297
• 负责人: Leslie DeChurch
• 金额: $ 9.2万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-01 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1738297&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Leadership; Virtual; Organizational; Effectiveness

This project will generate a concrete understanding of leadership in virtual organizations in the service of developing leadership capacity in modern organizations. The project evaluates an innovative and potentially transformative theory of leadership as a compilational multilevel process whereby "leadership" is comprised of the patterned interactions of multiple individuals collectively carrying out needed system functions. Three experiments test the core ideas of this leadership model, and develop tools for leadership assessment and program evaluation. These experiments manipulate configurations of leadership and observe the effects of doing so on the emergent structure of the collective, as well as the processes, states, and performance of these collectives. The scientific study of leadership has long recognized that the behavior of leaders can have extraordinary effects on collectives including teams, units, and organizations. While much of the empirical research on leadership focuses on predicting outcomes that reside at the individual unit of analysis (e.g., job satisfaction, work performance), many of the situations where leaders are potentially most pivotal require complex collective interactions (e.g., coordination, information sharing). Disaster response, vaccine development, and provincial reconstruction are examples of goals that require action by large-scale collectives, and so require leaders to orchestrate the effort within those collectives. Not only do we need to understand how leaders shape collectives, but we need to understand how they shape loosely coupled virtual collectives or multiteam systems: large interdependent teams interacting through virtual tools, which are interdependent with one another in order to achieve at least one common goal. This project will yield practical insights for better management in these sorts of domains.

该项目将产生在现代组织中发展领导能力服务的虚拟组织中的领导的具体理解。该项目评估了一个创新的和潜在的变革性的领导理论作为一个编译的多层次的过程，其中“领导”是由多个人集体进行所需的系统功能的模式化的互动。三个实验测试了这个领导模型的核心思想，并开发了领导评估和项目评估的工具。这些实验操纵领导的配置，并观察这样做对集体的涌现结构，以及这些集体的过程，状态和表现的影响。对领导力的科学研究早已认识到，领导者的行为可以对包括团队、单位和组织在内的集体产生非凡的影响。虽然大部分关于领导力的实证研究都集中在预测单个分析单元的结果上（例如，工作满意度，工作表现），领导者可能是最关键的许多情况需要复杂的集体互动（例如，协调、信息共享）。灾难应对、疫苗开发和省级重建都是需要大规模集体行动的目标，因此需要领导人在这些集体中协调努力。我们不仅需要了解领导者如何塑造集体，还需要了解他们如何塑造松散耦合的虚拟集体或多团队系统：大型相互依赖的团队通过虚拟工具进行交互，这些团队相互依赖，以实现至少一个共同目标。该项目将为这些领域的更好管理提供实用的见解。