Synergistic leadership, post-modern approach to human resource flexibility and voice behavior
Subject Areas :Sead aibaghi esfehani 1 , 2 * , Ramin Elahi Elahi 3
1 - استادیار دانشکده مهندسی صنایع و مدیریت، دانشگاه صنعتی شاهرود، ایران
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Keywords: synergy synergistic leadership voice behavior human resource flexibility,
Abstract :
Nowadays, In developing countries the women's participation in senior sectors of the organizations is lower than men, thus glass ceilings and walls have limited horizontally and vertically movement of women in the organizations. The synergistic leadership theory is the post-modern approach to leadership that conceptualized the presence of women in leadership positions of the leadership of the organizations as the synergistic agent in the organizations. This study aims to evaluate the effect of synergistic leadership on flexibility of human resources, in this evaluation the effect of the voice behavior of employees is considered as a mediator variable. This study is a practical search in terms of aim and is a descriptive survey in terms of method. The realm of study is the offices of social security organizations which is located in Tehran. For doing this study for measuring synergistic leadership in organization is used through the questionnaire of synergistic leadership, Thus after validation testes, reliability and validity were approved. Data analysis is done by using regression test and structural equations through software Amos and the findings of the research show the positive effect of synergistic leadership on the flexibility of human resources and also confirmed the positive and significant effect of synergistic leadership on the voice behavior of employees.
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