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Paradigms of Leadership in the Teleworking Environment: A Qualitative Study

This paper was presented by David S. Taylor and Joseph K. Kavanaugh of Sam Houston State University at the 2005 Allied Acadamics International Conference in Memphis, Tennessee.

Abstract

This paper explores those personal dimensions of leaders and followers and the teleworking environment already identified by research, and develops a tentative model for leader effectiveness in the virtual environment. The emergence of communications technology has created work environments that challenge well-established paradigms of leadership. Teleworking and virtual office environments have redefined the relationships between the employee, the supervisor, and the conditions of the workplace. Among the variables considered are manager and employee role acceptance, anxieties related to new role performance/behavior, and the importance of selfmanagement, goal commitment, satisfactory communication, and work/life balance in the definition of satisfactory role acceptance New contingency models of leadership are needed to better define the qualities and characteristics of leader effectiveness in the leader-follower relationship where direct personal contact is no longer the primary mode through which influence is conveyed.

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