A (Blurry) Vision of the Future: How Leader Rhetoric about Ultimate Goals Influences Performance

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The Continuous Mediating Effects of GHRM on Employees’ Green Passion via Transformational Leadership and Green Creativity (2018, background): “Leaders have an important influence on the formulation of HRM concepts, goals, and policies [55], but HRM practices have become an important platform for senior managers to deliver organizational strategies and visions [56].”
The Dark Side of Visionary Leadership in Strategy Implementation: Strategic Alignment, Strategic Consensus, and Commitment (2018, background): “Core to leadership is its role in mobilizing and motivating followers for collective objectives (Yukl, 2012), and nowhere is this more explicit than in the notion of visionary leadership (Carton et al., 2014; Larwood et al., 1995).”
“I’m Not Mopping the Floors, I’m Putting a Man on the Moon”: How NASA Leaders Enhanced the Meaningfulness of Work by Changing the Meaning of Work (2018, background): “Yet for individuals from various specializations to be properly coordinated, they must focus on the same ends (the organization’s) so that they generate meaning collectively (Weick and Roberts, 1993; Carton, Murphy, and Clark, 2014).”
Spiritual leadership as a model for performance excellence: a study of Baldrige award recipients (2017, background): “Vision refers to “a vibrant, idealized, ‘verbal portrait’ of what the organization aspires to one day achieve” (Carton, Murphy, and Clark 2014, 1544).”