Organizational and Learning Supports, Impact of Leadership Training, Leadership Styles and Leader Performance: A Multilevel Study
Keywords: performance of leaders at work; perception of organizational support; learning support; impact of training; leadership styles; multilevel modeling.
This thesis is focused on the leader's performance in the context of Brazilian public organizations, in a multilevel perspective. Work performance results from relationships between context-level/organizational environment variables and human/individual-level variables. This is especially important when it comes to leadership performance, which involves the relationship between individuals and groups, under the influence of the environment, in processes of interaction and social influence to achieve organizational objectives. Performance and leadership are recognized as complex, multi-determined, and multi-level phenomena, with multi-level studies as a research agenda. In turn, leadership performance in the context of Brazilian public administration is also a topic that deserves greater attention in scientific studies. It identifies the need to better understand variables related to the performance of leaders at work, both at the level of individuals and in their context. Given this, this thesis proposal is to investigate whether leaders' performance at work, in different work contexts, is influenced by the impact of training, perception of organizational and learning support, and leadership style, in a multilevel perspective. In summary, this research defends the thesis that the performance of leaders at work results from individual and contextual factors, being significantly influenced by shared perceptions in groups, which generate social representations and behaviors. Specifically, it is argued that individual and shared perceptions, in groups, of organizational and learning support, impact of training and leadership style, will predict the self-rated performance of leaders at work. The proposed empirical research is classified as explanatory and confirmatory, as it tests hypotheses related to the effect of individual and context variables in predicting the criterion variable. Mixed methods are adopted, with Quali-Quanti-Quali chaining, in a cross-sectional time frame. It is hoped that the triangulation between methods and sources will allow the complementarity between data and analysis, for a more accurate understanding and adherent to the reality of the phenomenon under study – the performance of leaders in Brazilian public organizations.