Organizational structure and leadership styles in Savings and Credit Cooperatives of Pichincha

Autor: Sandra Patricia Galarza Torres, Juanita del Carmen García Aguilar, Lenin Ballesteros Trujillo, Víctor Emilio Cuenca Caraguay, Angie Fernández Lorenzo
Jazyk: Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Cooperativismo y Desarrollo, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 19-31 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2310-340X
Popis: Leadership studies are of great interest to organizations and management scientists, because of the diversity of theories and models that have been perfected over time. The objective of this research is to qualitatively determine the leadership styles used by the managers of the Savings and Credit Cooperatives of Pichincha province, and to relate them to the organizational structures through which these institutions operate. The methodology was based on the application of surveys to managers of 60 cooperatives, taking as reference the variables raised by Bass and Avolio in their "Multifactorial Questionnaire on MLQ Leadership" and the organizational structure was obtained by another methodologies. It is concluded that in the cooperatives studied the styles used by managers are: transactional, transformational and Laissez Faire, the latter being the predominant in the organizational structures of cooperatives.
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