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Leadership effectiveness through coaching: Authentic and change-oriented leadership
Peter R Halliwell1, Rebecca J Mitchell2, Brendan Boyle1
1Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia.
Leadership coaching boosts leader effectiveness by enhancing authentic leadership behaviors and self-efficacy. Authentic leadership showed the most significant impact on improving overall leadership effectiveness in the study.
Area of Science:
- Organizational Psychology
- Leadership Studies
- Human Resource Development
Background:
- Organizations increasingly favor individualized leader development programs.
- Leadership coaching is a popular but mechanistically misunderstood development tool.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the underlying mechanisms through which leadership coaching enhances leader effectiveness.
- To test a model where coaching impacts leader effectiveness via authentic leadership, change-oriented behaviors, and self-efficacy.
Main Methods:
- Multi-source data collected from 70 organizational leaders pre- and post-coaching.
- Structural equation modeling using partial least squares analyzed latent change scores.
- Examined the relationships between coaching-induced changes in leadership behaviors and self-efficacy.
Main Results:
- Leadership coaching positively influenced authentic leadership behaviors, change-oriented leadership behaviors, and self-efficacy.
- Increases in authentic leadership behavior demonstrated the largest total effect on leadership effectiveness, even after controlling for baseline scores.
- The developed model provides empirical support for the pathways through which coaching impacts leader effectiveness.
Conclusions:
- Authentic leadership behavior is a key mechanism mediating the positive effects of leadership coaching on leader effectiveness.
- The findings offer valuable insights for designing and implementing effective leadership coaching interventions.
- Further research can explore the long-term impact and contextual factors influencing coaching effectiveness.
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