Effective military leadership: Balancing competing demands.

According to the Competing Values Framework (CVF; Quinn & Rohrbaugh, 1983), leadership requires a balance of competing priorities, including achieving goals while supporting subordinates and following rules while adapting to changing conditions. When leaders effectively balance these competing demands, they can provide employees with clear roles, a clear reporting structure, and challenging, meaningful work. Among the Canadian Armed Forces, in 2 independent samples, members’ perceptions of their leaders (based on the CVF) predicted role stressors (i.e., role ambiguity, role conflict, and role insufficiency), which subsequently predicted morale and military identification. Morale also predicted strong identification and these, in turn, predicted intentions to stay in uniform. The findings provide support for the CVF and show the importance of effective leadership and role stress for employee retention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research