Dec' 23


Effective Executive

ISSN: 0972-5172

A "peer-reviewed" journal included in EBSCO and ProQuest (Part of Clarivate) Database

It is a quarterly journal designed to provide emerging ideas and issues in the management leadership areas. Presents papers, interviews, debates, case studies, and corporate reports that have bearing on organizational leadership and leadership growth in organizations.

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  • Effective Executive is a journal designed for busy executives to keep themselves abreast of emerging ideas and issues in the management/leadership area.
  • Contents include articles, interviews, debates, case studies, and corporate reports on the most contemporary issues in management/leadership.
  • Papers are double blind refereed and selected to cover a wide range of issues in management/leadership.
  • A must read for executives, managers, consultants, and students who are interested in developing cutting edge knowledge and skills in management/leadership.
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What Does It Take to Become a Successful Executive? Reflections on Behavioral Dynamics
50
The Challenges of Managing a Multicultural Team: A Strategic Plan
50
Building Future Boards: Women and Diversity in Leadership Roles
50
Perceptions of Retentions and Resignations Among Race Groups: An 'Inclusive' Company Case Study
50
       
Contents : (Dec' 23)

What Does It Take to Become a Successful Executive? Reflections on Behavioral Dynamics
Michael Walton

The paper focuses on some of the more hidden and obscure aspects of workplace interactions which profoundly affect an executive's chances of success. The importance of (i) an executive's position within the organization's hierarchy, (ii) the embedded power structure, (iii) its political infrastructure, and (iv) the psychological characteristics of the key players in determining their relative success or failure is highlighted. Eight 'Reasons to be Careful'-each of which can help facilitate executive success and guard against failure and career disappointment-are explored.


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The Challenges of Managing a Multicultural Team: A Strategic Plan
Stephanie Jones and Mohammed Qamar

This paper explores the challenges faced by leaders in culturally diverse organizations through a case study of a project management team. The authors conduct a diagnosis of organizational culture to identify the cultural norms perceived by international employees, cultural diversity and inclusion, and obstacles to performance resulting from cultural differences, and then propose an optimal approach to culture and diversity management by leaders in the company to enhance organizational effectiveness and promote efficiency in project execution. The paper includes an outline strategic plan for implementing the recommendations, looking at setting up of different team structures, self-managed work teams, discussion forums and debriefings, cultural diversity training programs, mentoring sessions, and new approaches to incentives. The paper is potentially of value to leaders and managers wanting to leverage the benefits of working with multicultural teams.

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Building Future Boards: Women and Diversity in Leadership Roles
Colin Coulson-Thomas

While the dangers of excessively homogenous boards and the advantages of diversity have long been recognized, in recent years, the priority of legislators, other interests, and various campaigns has been to increase the number and proportion of women in senior and leadership roles. As a result of the focus upon greater gender diversity, have other forms of diversity been overlooked? Is a different perspective on diversity required when building future boards? This paper considers some questions that directors and boards and those who advise them might wish to consider when building boards that are future-ready in relation to greater fluidity, uncertainty, instability and volatility, and the need for more dramatic and radical corporate and collective action in response to common challenges and shared and interrelated existential threats such as global warming and climate change. Rather than address discrete problems, future leaders will be required to handle a succession of evolving and interrelated issues and maintain commitment and collaborative relationships during transition and transformation journeys.

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Perceptions of Retentions and Resignations Among Race Groups: An 'Inclusive' Company Case Study
Mncedisi Taala, Preeya Daya and Kurt April

This study sought to explore factors influencing the retention and turnover of employees from an engineering firm (Company X) in South Africa. It examines the 'pull' and 'push' factors to understand if they occur similarly in all racial and gender groups, and proposes strategies for the company to reduce staff turnover, especially within previously disadvantaged/designated groups. The study focuses primarily on people of color (broad 'Black' definition in South Africa) and women as categories of designated employee groups. Company X was awarded Level 1 Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Certification (the highest level), which supports the organization's view that they are inclusive. The study applied the qualitative research method through a single case study design. It found that the company has taken a range of steps to position itself as a good employer which aided retention. The key takeaway of the study is that the need for HR practices to instil the correct behaviors is important, but careful monitoring of subtle factors that influence the overall workplace culture is required to retain people of color and women.

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