Keyword

Cultural Agility, Leadershift, Mindfulness, Organizational Behavior, Organizational Psychology, and Resilience in Leadership.

Abstract

To achieve an agile business culture, leaders must match styles with situations (leadershift). Such a goal can be acquired by utilizing special abilities and skills, such as Mindfulness. We tested such a framework of research to identify the role of Mindfulness as a personality trait that any leader should effectively utilize to achieve an agile organizational culture successfully. The variance model was applied by a cross-sectional survey on a sample from the Egyptian Post Authority to evaluate their success using the proposed tools in their latest era of significant changes. Findings reveal that Mindfulness is a compelling personality trait that facilitates leadershift, identified as shifting leadership styles with high flexibility to fit the situation. Such a trait helped the management of the Egyptian Post Office to achieve a thriving agile culture as a state-owned enterprise. Moreover, further implications were highlighted for practitioners and academic researchers to investigate the relationship profoundly.


Full Text : PDF
References
  • Arinya, T., 2020. The Challenges of Agility , Bangkok: Bangkok Post.
  • Bennis, W. G. & Thomas, R. J., 2018. Crucibles of leadership: , Boston: Harvard Business Review Press.
  • Boyne, G. A., 2002. Public and Private Management: What's the Difference. Journal of Management Studies , 39(1), pp. 97-122.
  • Carter, C., Kravits, S. & Mannion, K., 2021. Reboot, resilience skills and employability. s.l., Pearson Middle East - Online Workshop.
  • Courtney, C., 2016. Signs of dysfunctional team, Lawrence, Kensas: WTA veterinary consultants and Veterinary Economics.
  • Daily News Egypt, 2022. Unemployment falls to 7.4% in December 2021: CAPMAS, Cairo: Daily News Egypt.
  • Deary, I. J., Gow, A. J., Pattie, A. & Whiteman, M. C., 2005. Goldberg's 'IPIP' Big-Five factor markers: Internal consistency and concurrent validation in Scotland. Personality and Individual Differences, 39(1), pp. 317-329.
  • Dossick, C. S., Garvin, M. & Taylor , J. E., 2011. Meeting the Burden of the Prood with Case-Study Research. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management , 10(10), pp. 303-311.
  • Elston, D. M., 2018. Sample Size. Journal of the American Academy of Detmatology, 79(4), pp. 635-635.
  • Farouk, S., 2022. CEO Egyptian Post Authority, [Interview] (3 January 2022).
  • Fitzell, S., 2021. Neurodiversity in the workplace and learning. Manchester, Antioch New England Graduate School - Antioch University.
  • Flint, M. & Hearn, E. V., 2019. The leaders' guide to impact: how to use soft skills to get hard results. 1 ed. London: Pearson.
  • France, T., Booysen, Lize & Baron, C., 2019. Cross-cultural professional experineces of female expatriaites: Finding success through ability, resilience, and essential relationships. Cross Cultural and Strategic Manegement, 26(4), pp. 522-545.
  • Ferickson, B., 2013. Positive Emotions: Broaden and Build Theory. Experimental Social Psychology, 47(4), pp. 1-53.
  • Gobillot, E., 2009. Leadershift: reinventing leadership for the age of mass collaboration, London: Kogan Page.
  • Goleman, D., Boyatzis, R. & McKee, A., 2004. Primal Leadership: Learning to lead with emotional intelligence , Boston: Harvard Business Review School Press.
  • Green-Moton, E. & Minkler, M., 2019. Cultural Competence or Cultural Humility? Moving beyond the debate. Sage Journal, 1(1), pp. 1-15.
  • Hirst, C., 2019. No bullsh*t leadership. 1 ed. London: Profile Books.
  • Ibad, F., 2013. Leadershift. 1 ed. Islamabad: Pakistan Business Review.
  • Ibraiz, T. & Caliguiri, P., 2016. Cultural Agility and International assignees effectiveness in cross cultural interactions. The International Journal of Training and Development, 20(4), pp. 1360-1370.
  • Johnstone, R. & Wilson-Prangley, A., 2021. The Relationship between mindfulness and Individual adaptability in dynamic work contexts. South African Journal of Business Managament, 52(1), pp. 1-12.
  • Jones, M. T., 2020. The dangers of a us mentality and them mentality. s.l., 5th International Conference on Globalisation entrepreneurship and emerging economies. Virtual Seminar, Center for Innovative Leadership CILN and the center for Business and economic research..
  • Kaplan , R. & Kaiser, R., 2009. Stop over doing your strengths, Harvard: Harvard Business Review.
  • Kiprop, C. J., 2012. Approaches to Management of Discipline in Secondary schools in Kenya. International Journal of Research in Management, 2(1), pp. 120-139.
  • Lee, B., Ji, D. & O'Kane, M., 2021. Examining Cross-Cultural Child Welfare Practice Through Simulation-Based Education. Clinical Social Work Journal, 49(4), pp. 271-285.
  • Li, J., Yang, T. & Yu, J., 2017. Random sampling and model competition for guaranteed multiple consensus sets estimation. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 10(11), pp. 1-11.
  • Mansour, A. A., 2022. General Manager [Interview] (3 January 2022).
  • Maxwell, J. C., 2019. Leadershift: the 11 essential changes every leader must embrace. The Journal of Applied Christian Leadership, 14(1), pp. 23-41.
  • Nasr, A., 2021. The Corporate: The art of thriving in a competitive talent market. Cairo: Elain Publishing House.
  • Nour, A., 2020. Mindful Management: the neuroscience of leadership, York: Schilich Business School - York University.
  • Pugh, J., 2020. Leadership Mindset: Towards an Integrated Model. Organization Development Review, 52(4).
  • Seligman, M. E. P., 2018. Building Resilience, Boston: Harvard Business Review Press.
  • Sharma, R., 2010. The leader who had no title, London: Simon and Schuster.
  • Smith, J. L., 2020. Ethics, Leadershift and More than coaching: insights for coaching psychologists from the CIPD and AC conferences. The Coaching Psychologist, The British Psychological Society, 6(1), pp. 1-10.
  • Smith, P. & Mannucci, 2017. From creativity to innovation: the social network drivers of the 4 phases of the idea journey. The Academy of Management Review, 42(1), pp. 1-17.
  • Traylor, A. & Caligiuri, P., 2019. The study buddy effect: studying abroad with a close friend and the development of cultural agility. Research in Comparative & International Education, 14(4), pp. 466-476.
  • Weir, T., 2015. Leadership Dubai Style, Dubai: EMLC Press.
  • Woodward, O. & Demille, O., 2013. Leadershift, New York: Business Plus.
  • Yukl, G. A., 2002. A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Leadership Behavior: Integrating a Half Century of Behavior Research. Journal of Leadership and Organisational Studies, 9(1), pp. 15-32.