To envisage

Great leaders across centuries and across institutions - political, social and economic - have astutely used the "power of imagery" in stirring a group of people. The power of envisaging an inspiring future and energizing the constituents towards realizing it seems indisputable. In an organizational context too, the implications of a "shared vision" has received considerable attention both on theoretical and practical fronts.

Social entrepreneurship: A distinctive domain?

Though 'social entrepreneurship' as a phenomenon that integrates economic and social value creation has had a long presence, it does not seem to have attracted wide scholarly attention. A review of the social science literature found despite spanning a period of nearly 20 years, just 152 journal articles on social entrepreneurship and 10 key areas of future research (Short, Moss and Lumpkin, 2009).

Leadership effectiveness

A cursory glance at the academic literature shows that the phenomenon of leadership has intrigued scholars across domains, particularly those from social psychological and organization behavioral disciplines. In fact, a Google Scholar search for the word "leadership" in the title of the article yields more than 150,000 results.

Maximizing organization performance

I have always been fascinated by the subject of how organizations, both for-profit and non-profit, manage their human resources to achieve greater organizational performance. Having worked in organizations of varied nature and settings, albeit for a shorter time, and having gotten time to reflect on these experiences, I believe that this area of maximizing organization performance offers tremendous scope for meaningful investigations.

Universal elements of employee engagement

A recent extensive research by Gallup Inc, a research based performance management company, indicates that majority of Amercian employees, about 71 percent, are either "not engaged" or "actively disengaged" in their work. While I have my own understanding of what employee engagement means, I was particularly curious to know how this research firm defined this concept, particularly the concept of "active disengagement".

Organizational performance

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Organizational performance encompasses three specific areas of firm outcomes: (a) financial performance (profits, return on assets, return on investment, etc.); (b) product market performance(sales, market share, etc.); and (c) shareholder return (total shareholder return, economic value added, etc.).

Richard, P. J., Devinney, T. M., Yip, G. S., & Johnson, G. (2009). Measuring Organizational Performance: Towards Methodological Best Practice. Journal of Management, 35(3), 718–804. doi:10.1177/0149206308330560