Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2013, 61(7), 2403-2414 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201361072403

Aspects affecting flexibility of Czech managers' leadership style

Ladislava Kuchynková1, Maria Králová2
1 Department of Corporate Economy, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Lipová 41a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
2 Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Lipová 41a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic

The paper examines the potential aspects that affect the flexibility of Czech managers' leadership style, because the ability to lead subordinates flexibly seems to be necessary for managerial practice in these days full of rapid change. A tool which makes it possible to determine the degree of flexibility of individual managers within the situational leadership style is represented by original method LBAII® developed by Ken Blanchard Companies, which the authors were provided with solely for this purpose. Due to the fact that research based on this method had not been conducted in the Czech Republic, an opportunity to learn new information from this field about the selected sample of Czech managers occurred. First of all, the article introduces the concept of a situational leadership style as well as an explanation of its use in practice. Subsequently it describes in detail the methodology of the authors' primary research and presents the outcomes of a questionnaire survey conducted in the form of contingency tables and other tools (correspondence map, box plot, scatter plot), which aptly illustrate the data found. Finally, the results obtained are discussed and aspects related to the achieved scores of flexibility of the monitored managers are established based on verified hypotheses.

Keywords: situational leadership style, LBAII®, flexibility of leadership style, manager's sex, management level, management area, number of subordinates

Received: August 11, 2013; Published: December 24, 2013  Show citation

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Kuchynková, L., & Králová, M. (2013). Aspects affecting flexibility of Czech managers' leadership style. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 61(7), 2403-2414. doi: 10.11118/actaun201361072403
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