Explore our resources on leadership and ensure that everyone in your organisation is connected to - and driven by - a common goal
Exploring the concept of purposeful leadership, this research draws on findings from surveys, interviews and focus groups to identify links between purposeful leadership, ethical leadership behaviours and various employee and organisational outcomes. Our research also investigates how organisations can nurture an environment where leaders can be purposeful.
This report conceptualises a construct of purposeful leadership and investigates the impact it has on various employee and organisational outcomes
The theories and models of leadership have changed over time – and continue to change with time, with context and with each theorist or subject-matter expert. There is no one overarching theory or model of leadership. There is no one agreed definition of leadership. There is also no agreed set of knowledge, skills and behaviours that leaders need to perform effectively. As a result, the answer to the simple question ‘What is leadership?’ is almost impossible to capture.
New directions in academic theory and research on leadership have focused upon three main areas of emerging leadership theory and research, namely:
Below we signpost a range of reports available.
Insight from senior leaders on how they have maintained trust and resilience during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic
Research, commissioned by the Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion (enei), looks at how organisations understand inclusive leadership
Opens the debate on the barriers preventing organisations from getting closer to effective leadership
Author and business speaker Dan Pink gives his insights on what good leadership looks like and how companies can help to cultivate good leadership practices.
In this programme of research we explore the systemic barriers to leadership under four groups of challenges to leadership which are present in some organisations today.
Explores the capacity of individuals at all levels of an organisation to buy into and lead on the organisational agenda
An exploration of the systemic barriers to leadership illustrated through case studies
Does your organisation have the leaders it needs? Experts from CIPD, BBC and Xerox discuss the barrier to leadership and how HR can overcome them.
The first two reports, produced in a collaboration with the University of Bath, examine the HR systems and processes in organisations that cultivate trustworthy leaders and how followers experience trustworthy senior leaders within some of the UK’s major corporations and institutions. The third gives insight from senior leaders on how they have maintained trust and resilience during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Episode 186: As scandals and failed leadership continue to make daily headlines, it is little wonder that trust in organisations may be at an all-time low. Is this something that can be fixed, especially if there have been mistakes?
Examines the HR systems and processes in organisations that cultivate trustworthy leaders
Examines how followers experience trustworthy senior leaders within the context of practice, process, actions and behaviours
Leadership is the ability to influence people by demonstrating positive personal attributes and behaviours. Different leadership styles and qualities may be needed in different circumstances. Here you’ll find information and guidance on leadership styles and skills, effective leaders, transformational leadership, and leading teams and effective management.
Examines what organisational transitions mean for leadership and management in the SME context
Understand the fundamentals of leadership and how to approach leadership development within the workplace
Introduces management development, focusing on how to identify development needs and the techniques involved in developing managers
