TY - JOUR
T1 - CEO relational leadership and strategic decision quality in top management teams
T2 - The role of team trust and learning from failure
AU - Carmeli, Abraham
AU - Tishler, Asher
AU - Edmondson, Amy C.
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge the financial support of the Henry Crown Institute of Business Research in Israel at Tel Aviv University.
PY - 2012/2
Y1 - 2012/2
N2 - In this study, we examine a complex pathway through which CEOs, who exhibit relational leadership, may improve the quality of strategic decisions of their top management teams (TMTs) by creating psychological conditions of trust and facilitating learning from failures in their teams. Structural equation modeling (SEM) analyses of survey data collected from 77 TMTs indicate that (1) the relationship between CEO relational leadership and team learning from failures was mediated by trust between TMT members; (2) team learning from failures mediated the relationship between team trust and strategic decision quality. Supplemented by qualitative data from two TMTs, these findings suggest that CEOs can improve the quality of strategic decisions their TMTs make by shaping a relational context of trust and facilitating learning from failures.
AB - In this study, we examine a complex pathway through which CEOs, who exhibit relational leadership, may improve the quality of strategic decisions of their top management teams (TMTs) by creating psychological conditions of trust and facilitating learning from failures in their teams. Structural equation modeling (SEM) analyses of survey data collected from 77 TMTs indicate that (1) the relationship between CEO relational leadership and team learning from failures was mediated by trust between TMT members; (2) team learning from failures mediated the relationship between team trust and strategic decision quality. Supplemented by qualitative data from two TMTs, these findings suggest that CEOs can improve the quality of strategic decisions their TMTs make by shaping a relational context of trust and facilitating learning from failures.
KW - CEO relational leadership
KW - learning from failures
KW - strategic decisions
KW - top management teams
KW - trust
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84856615882&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1476127011434797
DO - 10.1177/1476127011434797
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AN - SCOPUS:84856615882
SN - 1476-1270
VL - 10
SP - 31
EP - 54
JO - Strategic Organization
JF - Strategic Organization
IS - 1
ER -