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Supervisory Coaching Behavior, Employee Satisfaction, and Warehouse Employee Performance: A Dyadic Perspective in the Distribution Industry.

A Ellinger, S Keller Human Resource Development Quarterly 2003

Coaching has received considerable attention in recent years as the responsibility for employees' learning and development has been increasingly devolved to line managers. Yet there exists little published empirical research that measures specific coaching behaviors of line managers or examines the linkages between line managers' coaching...

An integrative model for executive coaching.

J Passmore Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2007

Towards a Psychology of Coaching: The Impact of Coaching on Metacognition, Mental Health and Goal Attainment.

AM Grant 2001

A theoretical framework for a psychology of coaching was developed. First, the literature on cognitive approaches to coaching, behavioral approaches to coaching, and combinations of the cognitive and behavioral approaches was reviewed. Next, two studies examined the development and validation of a new measure of private self-consciousness...

The Ideological Foundations of the Adaptive Coaching Model: A Research-Based Approach to Improving Coaching Results

T Bacon Proceedings of the Third Coaching Research Symposium 2005

Career benefits associated with mentoring for proteges: a meta-analysis.

T Allen, LT Eby, ML Poteet, E Lentz, L Lima Journal of applied psychology 2004

Meta-analysis was used to review and synthesize existing empirical research concerning the career benefits associated with mentoring for the protege. Both objective (e.g., compensation) and subjective (e.g., career satisfaction) career outcomes were examined. Comparisons of mentored versus nonmemored groups were included, along with relat...

Marginal mentoring: The effects of type of mentor, quality of relationship, and program design on work and career attitudes

BR Ragins, J Cotton, J Miller Academy of Management Journal 2000

Employing a national sample of 1,162 employees, the authors examined the relationship between job and career attitudes and the presence of a mentor, the mentor's type (formal or informal), the quality of the mentoring relationship, and the perceived effectiveness and design of a formal mentoring program. Satisfaction with a mentoring rela...

Coaching executives.

LL Tobias Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 1996

Describes a systems-based approach to executive coaching that attempts to maximize the consideration of contextual factors. The case study of a 44-yr-old male executive illustrates this approach. The author notes that perhaps the greatest danger in coaching individuals from organizations in which there is no ongoing consulting relationshi...

Developing sustainable leaders through coaching and compassion

RE Boyatzis, M Smith, N Blaize Academy of Management Learning \& Education 2006

By integrating recent findings in affective neuroscience and biology with well-documented research on leadership and stress, we offer a more holistic approach to leadership development. We argue here that leader sustainability is adversely affected by the psychological and physiological effects of chronic power stress associated with the ...

Development and initial validation of an instrument measuring managerial coaching skill

GN McLean, B Yang, M-C Kuo, AS Tolbert, C Larkin Human Resource Development Quarterly 2005

This article reports on two studies that used three different samples (N = 644) to construct and validate a multidimensional measure of managerial coaching skill. The four dimensions of coaching skill measured were Open Communication, Team Approach, Value People, and Accept Ambiguity. The two studies assessed the context adequacy, dimensi...

The Reluctant President.

KM Wasylyshyn Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2005

Coaching CEO successor candidates is challenging and deeply nuanced in the best of circumstances. The stakes rise exponentially when the sitting CEO owns the company, resents having "anointed" an eventual successor, and has been phenomenally successful despite the bruising effects of his narcissism and toxic micromanagement. This case stu...

Discovering the value of executive coaching as a business transformation tool

J Niemes Journal of Organizational Excellence 2002

Today's transformation initiatives—everything from Enterprise Resource Planning to Six Sigma—often require the development of new abilities in a company's leaders. Executive coaching is a powerful tool that can be used to rapidly introduce new skills into a company's leadership ranks. For both high-potential executives and those newly ent...

Behavioural indicators of ineffective managerial coaching: A cross-national study

A Ellinger, RG Hamlin, R Beattie Journal of European Industrial Training 2008

Purpose – The concept of managers assuming developmental roles such as coaches and learning facilitators has received considerable attention in recent years. Yet, despite the growing body of expert opinion that suggests that coaching is an essential core activity of everyday management and leadership, the literature base remains largely ...