Speaker Series 2005-2006

Leadership in Empowered Environments

JOHN E. MATHIEU
University of Connecticut
Friday, September 16, 2005, 10:00 - 11:30  a.m.

Abstract: What constitutes effective leadership is perhaps one of the oldest questions in management. Yet, the evolving nature of organizational designs is rekindling interest in the topic. More specifically, what is the role of leadership in empowered designs; and in particular, in team-based empowered environments? In this talk, I will share the results of a series of studies that my colleagues and I have conducted on this topic. Some of this work has focused on leadership influences on individual employees, whereas other work has examined the leader-team interface. In all instances, leadership is considered in context in combination with other sources of influence. I will conclude with a discussion of leadership in the context of a newly evolving organizational form called multi-team systems.

John E. Mathieu (John.Mathieu@business.uconn.edu) is an Ackerman Scholar and Professor of Management at the University of Connecticut. He also serves as the Director of the Ph.D. Program for the School of Business. He received a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Old Dominion University 1985. He had published over 75 articles and chapters on a variety of topics, mostly in the areas of Micro- and Meso-Organizational Behavior. He is a member of the Academy of Management and a Fellow of the Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology, and the American Psychological Association. His current research interests include models of training effectiveness, team and multi-team processes, and cross-level models of organizational behavior. In particular, his recent work has focused on how team composition and foundation activities influence team performance trajectories over time, how team training and other interventions enhance team effectiveness, and how teams-of-teams coordinate their joint efforts. He is also examining the leader – member interface, particularly in empowered team-based organizational environments.

Curriculum Vita