Expertise, Leadership Style and Communication in Interfunctional Coordination

Tomášková, Eva

doi:10.3311/ppso.11692

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“…IFC refers to the integration and collaboration of differing functional departments of an organization to enhance communication and information flow so as to attain organizational goals (Auh & Menguc, 2005; Narver & Slater, 1990; Tomášková, 2018). This means that different functional units are able to embrace differing views and work with such varying perspectives for the good of the whole organization.…”

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“…This mechanism ensures the synchronization of communication, dissemination of information, ideas and resources in an integrative and collaborative manner among different functional units within an organization to create value for customers (Yang & Tsai, 2019). Internal knowledge acquisition is also facilitated through the existence of the connections and relationships among different faculties or functions (Tomášková, 2018) whose members show willingness to share or exchange knowledge and ideas, based on mutual trust.…”

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Absorptive capacity and innovation generation in higher education institutions: the mediating role of inter-functional coordination

Asiedu,

Anyigba,

Doe

2023

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to theoretically broaden the knowledge-based view (KBV) by examining the significant intermediary role that inter-functional coordination (IFC) plays in acquiring new knowledge and exploiting it throughout the entire higher education institution (HEI) community for innovation generation (INNG). Design/methodology/approach Data collected from a survey of 282 lecturers purposively selected from the business schools of 20 HEIs in the Greater Accra region of Ghana was analyzed using partial least squares structural equation model to test the hypotheses proposed for the study. Findings The results revealed that IFC significantly predicts teamwork and strong relationships across faculties, departments and units, and has a positive effect on the generation of innovations such as improved curricula, enhanced academic instruction and quality research output. Practically, the findings advise HEI managers to invest resources and efforts at building strong relationships that facilitate collaboration, trust and interactions among varying faculties, departments and units. This will enhance inter-functional knowledge sharing in academia to sustain a competitive advantage and continued relevance. Research limitations/implications There are limitations that must be considered when interpreting and generalizing the quantitative results of this study. Data were collected from faculty staff of 20 public and private HEIs in the Greater Accra region of Ghana. Although the majority of HEIs are clustered in this region, the results may still not be representative of all HEIs in Ghana. Practical implications Managers of HEIs are advised to commit to ensuring the management of IFC to promote knowledge sharing across faculties and departments. Managers are also advised to ensure that staff are made to be responsible for their cooperative and integrative teamwork. They are also advised to ensure that faculty and departmental goals are aligned with the overall goals of the university. Staff may also be encouraged to act as partners and not just employees through rewards, incentives and recognition packages. Social implications Attention should be focused on creating lateral relations among faculty and department members to achieve internal social capital. They are advised to invest resources and efforts in building a culture of teamwork and connectedness through strong informal networking that facilitate collaboration between faculties and departments while cultivating a shared vision throughout the university. Originality/value The main contribution of this paper is that it theoretically extends the KBV by empirically broadening the scope of absorptive capacity (ACAP) beyond its dimensions to include the “collaborative mechanism” (IFC) through which knowledge can be holistically exploited. The paper also contributes to existing literature by examining the intermediary role played by IFC in the relationship between ACAP and INNG in the HEIs domain which has been least discussed in the ACAP literature.

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Section: Literature Review and Hypotheses Developmentmentioning

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Absorptive capacity and innovation generation in higher education institutions: the mediating role of inter-functional coordination

Asiedu,

Anyigba,

Doe

2023

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“…Coordination plays a very important role in a management process so that it can achieve an organizational goal directed and integrated with the goals to be achieved [16]. Jaworski and Kohli emphasized that in achieving an organization effectiveness, it is necessary for a good coordination applied by all departments with their respective duties and roles [17]. Any number of issues may be managed simultaneously with good cooperation [18].…”

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Elementary School Principal Participative Leadership: Coordination in Character Education Implementation

Komariah¹,

Kurniady²,

Abdullah³

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the 2nd Padang International Conference on Educational Management and Administration 2021 (PICEMA 2021)

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Coordination is one among the key measurements of participative leadership in character education. Coordination applied by heads in character education operation is realized during a number of forms, like delegating authorities, empowering all school parties, building cooperation with teachers and staff also as creating good relationships with teachers and staff. However, there's a little information describing the forms of coordination taken by principals. So, by pertaining to the issue, this research aim goal is to work out the description of coordination forms taken by principals in Character Education Implementation. A survey method is used in this study by using distributing questionnaires to grade school principals in Indonesia. The coordination taken by grade school Principals show a very high level of frequency. By this research, it's expected to be able to resent description of participative leadership coordination forms which can be used as a guidance by principles in Character Education implementation.

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“…The communication style also appears to be closely related to the person's concept of Self: individuals who perceive themselves as independent from others can communicate in a more assertive way than other individuals who present a concept of Self that is more interdependent (Kirtley and Weaver, 2010). Considering communication style as a specific form of adaptation of the person constitutes a way to adequately integrate the behavioral and personality perspectives (Waldherr and Muck, 2011;Ntoumanis et al, 2017;Tomášková, 2018).…”

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Psychometric Properties and a Preliminary Validation Study of the Italian Brief Version of the Communication Styles Inventory (CSI-B/I)

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People will typically develop a communication style that tends to be coherent with their own fundamental personality traits. The current debate on communication style acknowledges the construct of adaptive behavior as an appropriate area where to include both the strictly personal aspects and social learning and cultural assimilation, which translate into communicative style as a specific form of adaptation integrating the behavioral and personality perspectives. Due to the lack of instruments in the Italian psychometric scenario to assess communication styles, the present study included the translation and validation of the Italian short version of the Communication Styles Inventory (CSI-B/I). Methods. The CSI-B/I was administered to a sample of 1,044 participants, while the concurrent validity was tested through a second administration to 518 participants along with the MPP (Multidimensional Personality Profile). Results. Confirmatory factor analysis bore out a three-factor solution (including 18 items) with good indices of adaptation to data, e.g., χ2/df = 1.251, RMSEA = 0.027, RMSEA 90% CI = 0.008-0.040, GFI = 0.958, AGFI = 0.937, CFI = 0.983 and NFI = 0.922. The CSI-B/I allows to measure three main dimensions of the communication style: impression manipulativeness; emotionality; expressiveness. Internal consistency reliability and significant correlations with the MPP supported the concurrent validity of the tool. Conclusion. By virtue of its good psychometric properties, CSI-B/I represents an important addition to the assessment in multiple contexts: companies, institutions, staff selection, individual and group profile analysis, coaching, psychotherapy, counseling, career guidance.

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Expertise, Leadership Style and Communication in Interfunctional Coordination

Cited by 3 publications

References 39 publications

Absorptive capacity and innovation generation in higher education institutions: the mediating role of inter-functional coordination

Absorptive capacity and innovation generation in higher education institutions: the mediating role of inter-functional coordination

Elementary School Principal Participative Leadership: Coordination in Character Education Implementation

Psychometric Properties and a Preliminary Validation Study of the Italian Brief Version of the Communication Styles Inventory (CSI-B/I)

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