Examining the relationship between employee engagement and perceived managerial wisdom

dc.contributor.advisorBeaty, Daviden
dc.contributor.emailichelp@gibs.co.zaen
dc.contributor.postgraduateReynhardt, Jan Petrus Karelen
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-06T23:16:31Z
dc.date.available2011-07-05en
dc.date.available2013-09-06T23:16:31Z
dc.date.created2011-11-10en
dc.date.issued2010en
dc.date.submitted2011-06-19en
dc.descriptionDissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.en
dc.description.abstractWisdom is very difficult to study due to the complexity of defining wisdom outright. Various models propose characteristics of individuals that are perceived as wise but wisdom finds its real application in decision making. People would characterise someone as wise if they believe that the decision made by the person (the manager in this instance) is informed by the values of all stakeholders and have long term validity. With increasing demands placed on managers to make decisions in contexts where various stakeholders and the natural environment have to be taken into consideration, managers have to make increasingly complex decisions. The decision then also has to take into consideration the values, beliefs and needs of the employees. By asking respondents to rate their manager‟s level of wisdom, why they perceive their managers as wise and what constitutes employee engagement in their minds, a relationship between employee engagement and the perception of wisdom can be deduced. The evidence suggests that especially the cognitive and emotional dimensions of employee engagement are correlated with the perception of wisdom of the manager. New models for the measurement of implicit wisdom and employee engagement are proposed. Copyrighten
dc.description.availabilityunrestricteden
dc.description.departmentGordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)en
dc.identifier.citationReynhardt, JPK 2010, Examining the relationship between employee engagement and perceived managerial wisdom, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25676 >en
dc.identifier.otherF11/500/hjen
dc.identifier.upetdurlhttp://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06192011-142127/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/25676
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoriaen_ZA
dc.rights© 2010, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretorien
dc.subjectUCTDen_US
dc.subjectWisdom (perception of)en
dc.subjectEmployee engagementen
dc.subjectLeadershipen
dc.titleExamining the relationship between employee engagement and perceived managerial wisdomen
dc.typeDissertationen

Files

Original bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name:
dissertation_2010.pdf
Size:
4.48 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description: