About this Research Topic
This Research Topic is the second volume of Research Topic "The Impact of Quality of Relationships in Terms of Shared Vision, Compassion and Energy on Leadership, Engagement, and Organizational Citizenship". Please see the first volume here.
Management and psychology research is turning to appreciating the potency of relationships. Beyond simple leader-followers designs, more scholars are using qualitative and quantitative methods to understand how and which qualities of relationships help foster greater leadership or professional effectiveness, employee engagement, organizational citizenship and innovation. Beyond John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s adage, “all you need is love”, there are many qualities of relationships that are desired. Based on Intentional Change Theory introduced by Boyatzis, 2008, and the concept of resonant relationships that foster sustained, desired change, the primal emotions of hope stimulated from vision and purpose, compassion from caring, mindfulness from being centered, and energy from activation have been shown to have psycho-physiological positive effects on humans, as shown by research carried out by Boyatzis and Rockford in 2020.
Recently, shared vision, compassion and energy have been the focus of a number of dissertations, qualitative and quantitative studies at dyad, team and organization levels of social systems. These studies are beginning to lay the foundation for a systematic body of empirical knowledge about the role of specific qualities of relationships in an organizational context. A Frontiers Research Topic focused on the impact of shared vision in 2015, and was well received with 14 published articles which also was available as an e-book, with over 405,000 views and 54,000 downloads. This proposed Research Topic can be considered volume 2 of this stream of research, updating and expanding the specific qualities of relationships that have such desirable effects.
This Research Topic will collect, review, and disseminate a set of empirical papers examining the role of shared vision, compassion and energy in a wide variety of desired dependent variables from organizational engagement, to leadership effectiveness and executive performance, to organizational citizenship in family businesses, leader-follower relationships in Egypt, coaching Millennials, manager-subordinate feedback and exchange, faculty effectiveness in Universities in Mexico, peer coaching in groups in companies, and so on.
Management and psychology research is turning to appreciating the potency of relationships. Beyond simple leader-followers designs, more scholars are using qualitative and quantitative methods to understand how and which qualities of relationships help foster greater leadership or professional effectiveness, employee engagement, organizational citizenship and innovation. Beyond John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s adage, “all you need is love”, there are many qualities of relationships that are desired. Based on Intentional Change Theory introduced by Boyatzis, 2008, and the concept of resonant relationships that foster sustained, desired change, the primal emotions of hope stimulated from vision and purpose, compassion from caring, mindfulness from being centered, and energy from activation have been shown to have psycho-physiological positive effects on humans, as shown by research carried out by Boyatzis and Rockford in 2020.
Recently, shared vision, compassion and energy have been the focus of a number of dissertations, qualitative and quantitative studies at dyad, team and organization levels of social systems. These studies are beginning to lay the foundation for a systematic body of empirical knowledge about the role of specific qualities of relationships in an organizational context. A Frontiers Research Topic focused on the impact of shared vision in 2015, and was well received with 14 published articles which also was available as an e-book, with over 405,000 views and 54,000 downloads. This proposed Research Topic can be considered volume 2 of this stream of research, updating and expanding the specific qualities of relationships that have such desirable effects.
This Research Topic will collect, review, and disseminate a set of empirical papers examining the role of shared vision, compassion and energy in a wide variety of desired dependent variables from organizational engagement, to leadership effectiveness and executive performance, to organizational citizenship in family businesses, leader-follower relationships in Egypt, coaching Millennials, manager-subordinate feedback and exchange, faculty effectiveness in Universities in Mexico, peer coaching in groups in companies, and so on.
Keywords: relationships, shared vision, compassion, energy, leadership, engagement, citizenship, #CollectionSeries
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