Arménio Rego

Católica Porto Business School

Purpose – The study aims to show how authentic leadership (AL) predicts employee’s job performance, and how affective commitment mediates such relationship. Methodology - A sample comprising 220 individuals from the Portuguese branch of a multinational insurance company was collected. Employees reported their perceptions of supervisors’ AL, as wel...

Through a team-level analysis, the study shows how authentic leadership (AL) predicts team potency both directly and through the mediating role of team virtuousness and team affective commitment. Data about AL and team virtuousness were collected two months before data collection on team affective commitment and team potency. Fifty-one teams were s...

Objetivo. Este trabalho insere-se no domínio dos estudos organizacionais positivos. Testa empiricamente como as perceções dos colaboradores acerca da responsabilidade social das empresas (RSE) explicam o seu desempenho individual (próprio do papel e extra papel), tanto diretamente como através do capital psicológico positivo (PsyCap) e do empenhame...

O presente estudo procura investigar como as perceções de quatro dimensões de justiça organizacional (distributiva, procedimental, interpessoal e informacional) e três dimensões de stresse (exigência, controlo e apoio) predizem comportamentos contra produtivos (CCP). Embora difíceis de quantificar, os efeitos destes comportamentos discricionários s...

To examine how knowledge-based dynamic capabilities relate to firm performance through the mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation, we analyzed data of a sample of 1047 Portuguese and Spanish small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of all industry sectors. The results reveal that knowledge-based dynamic capabilities are associated with firm...

Grit in leaders (and, in general, all employees) typically results in greater success and well-being but also has potential downsides. We propose that gritty leaders also need to be prudent or they may spend excessive time and resources at work, leading to greater work-to-family conflict and, as a result, lower well-being. Findings of two studies s...

Visualization (i.e., the use of figures and images to represent findings and conceptual models) is central to theorizing. Yet, by focusing solely on the textual content of papers, analysis has inadvertently marginalized the graphic representations of key ideas. We review the paradox literature not just in terms of what authors have written but also...

This article presents the Positive Leadership Action Framework (PLAF) to structure Positive Leadership (PL). The novelty of the PLAF is that it incorporates the connections of PL to positive outcomes (financial and economic performance and social well-being) and organizational virtuousness. Also, it acknowledges its conditional nature on the virtue...

Teams are complex relational systems. Effective team functioning depends on members willingness to coordinate and work together. Ground rules play a fundamental but frequently ignored role in this process. We define ground rules as the mutual agreements informally established by members to regulate team functioning. These agreements may subsequentl...

Integration of paradoxes, comprising interdependent yet contradictory tensions such as those of stability and change, learning and performing, or the individual and the collective, have been recently recognized as sources of synergy and competitive advantage. When adequately navigated, paradoxes may promote innovation, favoring generative complemen...

Bureaucracies, especially state bureaucracies, are typified as rational-legal organizations. We study how one such bureaucracy acted as neither rational nor legal but proved to be a space of exclusion. Ihor Homenuyk, a Ukrainian citizen, was ‘retained’ and then killed by the Portuguese foreigners and borders service. Police abuse has been much in t...

This chapter theorizes spirituality in the social enterprise through a paradox lens. It discusses how: (1) social enterprises are different but potentially incorporate a strong spiritual dimension; (2) because of organizational differences, spirituality manifests in different ways in different types of social organizations (e.g., the spiritual dime...

Scholarship at the interface of ethics, leadership and organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is still scarce. We draw from literature about leadership in Africa to identify three research streams (functional, cultural, and critical) and use these streams to make sense of research on ethics, organizations and leadership in SSA, as well as to ana...

Este trabalho resulta da colaboração entre a Federação Portuguesa de Futebol, através da Portugal Football School, e o Sindicato de Jogadores Profissionais de Futebol, em parceria com a Nova School of Business and Economics e a Católica Porto Business School. 📚"Os autores preenchem um espaço de investigação sobre uma matéria muito desconsiderada n...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how a number of processes joined to create the microlevel strategies and procedures that resulted in the most lethal and tragic forest fire in Portugal's history, recalled as the EN236-1 road tragedy in the fire of Pedrógão Grande. Design/methodology/approach Using an inductive theory development app...

In the management and organization studies literature, a key question to explore and explain is that of the family as an organizational stakeholder, particularly when working-from-home became the “new normal”. Departing from meta-analytic studies on the work-family relation and connecting with scholarly conversation on work-family boundary dynamics...

We offer a set of conceptual distinctions between servant and paternalistic leadership, which we support with a new model that further extends the notion of paradoxical dynamic equilibrium. We used an in-depth case study of narratives on servant and paternalistic leadership from the Kingdom of Bhutan’s transition to democratic leadership. These nar...

We uncover fundamental dimensions of the process through which organizations embed the practice of fraternity through embarking on an organizational journey in the direction of the common good. Building on the latest encyclical of Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti, about fraternal and social friendship, we offer insight into the understanding of what it...

In spite of a growing interest for improvisation in organizations, the microfoundations of improvisation have not been theorized yet. Exploring these microfoundations, we study how employees’ psychological capital (PsyCap) acts as a critical cluster of resources to face improvisational challenges and how leaders who convey grit (operationalized as...

Quer aumentar as possibilidades de singrar como líder político? Quer ser mais sábio acerca do líder que merece ser seguido? Imitar outros não o vai ajudar, mas conhecer as características de destacados líderes será uma fonte de aprendizagem sobre como liderar e como evitar seguir o líder errado. Jacinda Ardern, primeira-ministra da Nova Zelândia, P...

Purpose Burrell (2020) challenged management and organization studies (MOS) scholars to pay attention to a topic they have mostly ignored: the peasantry, those 2 billion people that work in the rural primary sector. This paper aims to address the topic to expand Burrell’s challenge by indicating that the peasantry offers a unique context to study a...

During times of suffering such as that inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic, compassion expressed by leaders helps to ease distress. Doing so, those in a position to provide resources that might facilitate coping and recovery are attentive to the situations of distress. Despite an abundance of leadership theorizing and models, there still is little a...

Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS), with positivity as a core conceptual component, is a major innovation in recent decades in management and organizational studies. Just as organization is an inherently paradox laden process, so too, we argue, is positivity. Yet in classrooms and in practice, POS is mostly taught in a manner that accepts on...

The concept of purpose gained prominence in organization theory in recent years but there are discrepant views of its meaning, which we review as evolving and different perspectives: economic theories of the firm; stakeholder approaches; integrative social contracts; and social mission. We elaborate these perspectives in terms of the ebb and flow o...

The paradoxical traits of the jester are highlighted by constructing a typology of the role the jester plays and might play in management learning. The metaphor of the jester, used constructively, offers a unique window on the contradictions of organizational studies and their paradoxical role in relation to corporate practices. Wisely used, the ro...

Four studies (a vignette-based experiment conducted in Portugal and Brazil; a two-wave multi-source field study in Portugal; a three-wave field study in the US; a multi-source field study in Portugal, in which conscientiousness, a “rival” of grit, was controlled for) provide theoretical and empirical evidence for a model testing what (e.g., grit in...

PURPOSE – The purpose of the study is to explore inductively the unique paradoxical tensions central to family business (FB) and to analyze how FB’s members face these tensions and their implications in the personal and professional realms. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH – A multiple-case study with 11 parent–offspring dyads from Portuguese FBs was...

Using a sample of 114 leaders (described by 516 team members), we show empirically that leader relational transparency and leader receptiveness is indirectly related to the relational transparency of team members (through leader respect), and is conditional on leader humility. When a transparent leader expresses humility, they convey respect to tea...

Purpose – The purpose of the study is to explore inductively the unique paradoxical tensions central to family business (FB) and to analyze how FB’s members face these tensions and their implications in the personal and professional realms. Design/methodology/approach – A multiple-case study with 11 parent–offspring dyads from Portuguese FBs was co...

Management and organization studies has recently expressed heightened interest in the concept of paradox. Paradox, etymologically para-doxa, is that which challenges the norm. Frequently representative cases drawn from the terrain of the arts and of artistic work have provided a context for exploring going against the norm, usually under the label...

Why do great companies and other organizations fail, sometimes abruptly? Why do admired leaders fall from their organizational pedestals? Why do young and promising managers derail? Why do organizations create and reinforce rules that manifestly damage both them and those that they employ, serve and sustain? Leadership is a much-discussed but ill-d...

This book is both a completed endeavor and a work in progress. It is unquestionable that leaders must develop technical, socio-relational, cognitive and self-leadership competencies. It is also indisputable that the relative importance of these competencies changes as leaders advance in their careers. However, the thesis that leadership is a proces...

Crises and tragedies befalling individuals, teams, organizations or communities call for leadership that builds resilience in the face of danger. The COVID-19 pandemic, full of both known and unknown unknowns, is no exception and variable national responses to it epitomize the importance of resilient leadership. In such situations there is always t...

Este livro discute desafios de liderança associados à atual crise pandémica e alerta para a necessidade de nos prepararmos para a próxima, seja ela sanitária, tecnológica ou de qualquer outra natureza. Esta crise não foi a primeira, nem será a última, podendo a próxima ocorrer no próximo século, ou já amanhã. Importa que, apelando à sabedoria e à...

In an application of the personality dynamics framework, we advance understanding on the relationship between baseline leader humility and team psychological safety by exploring the roles of humility variability and attractor strength. Specifically, we examine how the (in)consistency (i.e., variability) of leader-expressed humility across team memb...

Interest in the virtues is now growing in business and management, both among scholars and practitioners. Interestingly, one virtue that should stand out but has been somewhat neglected is phronesis, or practical wisdom. Described by Aristotle as the “mother” of all other virtues, phronesis is key for management scholars for, at least, two reasons:...

Long-term stewardship is usually represented as a stable structural condition and portrayed as a source of competitive advantage to firms (including family businesses) that use it as a mode of governance. Less is known about how organizations engage with stewardship as a process. We embrace a process approach to report a case study about the unfold...

Scarlett Johansson, musa de Woody Allen, afirmou que admitir a nossa vulnerabilidade pode ser uma ação muito poderosa. O cronista do Expresso, Daniel Oliveira, escreveu algo similar acerca da apresentadora de TV Cristina Ferreira: “Na pessoa da Cristina, até as fragilidades são forças”. Não se surpreenda: estas não são lições de liderança! Mas pode...

A expressão “amor duro” pode parecer estranha. A surpresa pode ser ainda maior quando a expressão é aplicada à liderança de equipas – sejam elas as desportivas ou as de organizações “normais”. Afinal, como pode amar-se a equipa, e os seus membros, sendo duro? E como pode ser-se duro e, ao mesmo tempo, mostrar afeto? Este texto ajuda a compreender e...

“No dia da entrevista, leve o horóscopo”. Era este o título de um artigo que o Courrier Internacional publicou, em setembro de 2005, sobre práticas de seleção de recursos humanos de algumas empresas indianas . O texto anunciava que, em Ahmedabad, no Estado do Guajarate, a empresa Problems and Solutions havia lançado um método de recrutamento “dos m...

Estamos a viver a quarta revolução industrial, uma revolução digital cujas consequências e impactos na vida quotidiana não são ainda totalmente visíveis. A primeira revolução industrial foi marcada pela utilização da água e do vapor para mecanizar a produção. A segunda correspondeu à produção em massa e foi permitida pela utilização da eletricidade...

Positive Organizational Behaviour: A Reflective Approach introduces the most recent theoretical and empirical insights on positive organizational practices, addressing emerging topics such as resilience, job crafting, responsible leadership and mindfulness. Other books on positive approaches tend to gloss over the limitations of the positive agenda...

A investigação sobre gestão e organizações tem sido metodologicamente dominada pela lógica hipotético-dedutiva e pelos métodos quantitativos. Tal orientação tem possibilitado signifi cativos desenvolvimentos do conhecimento. Todavia, essas disciplinas também se benefi ciam da aplicação de métodos indutivos. Assim, os métodos indutivos são aqui apre...

We explored the attitudes toward older workers of African versus Portuguese managers, and how these managers make HRM decisions in scenarios involving younger versus older workers. To make cultural, social, and institutional explanations more robust, we also included two samples of students attending Portuguese universities: one sample comprising A...

O desempenho das pessoas nas organizações resulta da interação de quatro fatores: satisfação de necessidades humanas, competências apropriadas, capital psicológico e capital social. Esses factores são estimulados através de quatro ações dos líderes: cuidar, capacitar, estimular e articular.

Abundam na história casos de líderes e organizações que colapsam quando, aparentemente, se encontram no cume do sucesso. Este paradoxo acontece, frequentemente, quando a autoconfiança, o poder e o sucesso se transformam em arrogância e soberba. A tentação híper-narcísica transporta o líder para o centro de um mundo fictício à volta do qual tudo gir...

Significant research has been dedicated to the study of the dual constitutive core at the field and organizational levels but less attention has been paid to the micro-dimensions of the collision of competing logics, namely in terms of how individuals experience and navigate through them and how that influences organizational ethos and strategy. We...

“Teoria” é palavra menosprezada e com pobre reputação em algumas discussões sobre gestão. Acusar um académico de teórico é dizer-lhe que não conhece o mundo real. Contudo, é pouco prático ignorar teorias. Quando boas, explicam a realidade. E, boas ou más, afetam o modo como os gestores se comportam. Más teorias conduzem a más práticas; boas teorias...

Organizations, especially, multinationals, inevitably confront contradictory challenges. One crucial challenge is the value of strategic consistency versus the value of rapid change related to unexpected problems, opportunities and fast moving trends. Accentuating the previously planned strategy can reduce temporal responsiveness; accentuating the...

Grit has been extolled as being crucial for individual’s success. However, empirical research regarding grit at work is scarce. This research (a vignette-based experiment conducted in Portugal and Brazil; a two-wave multi-source field study in Portugal) suggests that grit in employees may be developed by leaders who convey a high level of grit and...

Este trabalho discute tendências possíveis no domínio da gestão de pessoas. Resulta, em medida considerável, de depoimentos de quase duas dezenas de executivos que operam na área da gestão de pessoas em diversas empresas nacionais e multinacionais. Esses contributos foram cruzados com o trabalho de investigação que temos realizado, e com evidência...

With organizational environments becoming increasingly unstable, uncertain and equivocal, the concept of resilience has become increasingly significant for management studies. Resilience connotes organizational, team and individual capacities to absorb external shocks and to learn from them, while simultaneously preparing for and responding to exte...

February 2017: the top three contenders in the AESlot Club, a slot car association in Lisbon, Portugal, used chassis from National Racers 3D (NR3D). Eight other contenders in the Top 25 of the Club also used NR3D chassis. In the national competition, 7 of the Top 10 racers also used NR3D chassis. As these results suggest, NR3D is the top provider o...

In practice managers confront paradoxical demands to do two opposite things simultaneously as part of their daily work life, sometimes not necessarily noticing . For example, they have to be realistic/pragmatic and inspirational/aspirational (March & Weil, 2005); they engage their organizations in both exploration and exploitation (March, 1991; Tus...

Institutions have been mainly understood in a dualistic way: as abstract, macro cultural logics, or as inhabited socio-cultural sites. This form of dualism divided people into cognitive cultural dopes or persons with a heart. Scholars are now trying to overcome dualistic modes of thinking about people in institutions, through the consideration of t...

Uma das dificuldades associadas à realização de investigação qualitativa remete para a dimensão das amostras. Os investigadores não justificam, com alguma frequência, as suas escolha de N e são por isso criticados. Este artigo apresenta um conjunto de linhas de orientação para a determinação e justificação do número de casos a usar numa investigaçã...

O leitor conhece profissionais de elevada craveira técnica que, quando catapultados para funções de liderança, se revelaram autênticos desastres? Lembra-se de excelentes professores ou investigadores que se transformaram em ministros incompetentes? Já ouviu a expressão «perdeu-se um bom técnico, ganhou-se um mau líder»? Este livro ajuda a compreend...

One of the difficulties associated with qualitative research refers to sample size. Researchers often fail to present a justification for their N and are criticized for that. This article presents guidelines for determining and justifying sample size in qualitative research. It defends that (a) the increase of size is not, per se, an advantage and...

Purpose – The reorganization of the Portuguese national healthcare system around networks of hospital centers was advanced for reasons promoted as those of effectiveness and efficiency and initially presented as an opportunity for organizational transcendence through synergy. The purpose of this paper is to study transcendence as felt by the author...

Resilience is a capacity developed and deployed over time rather than an effective reaction to a single event (Hamel & Välikangas, 2003; Reinmoeller & Baardwijk, 2005). Such a capacity can be expressed at different levels of aggregation, spanning from individuals to entire communities (e.g. Van Der Vegt et al., 2015). The brilliant examination of t...

Dogs are known as the animal best friends of humans, and such a special relationship has neurobiological and evolutionary grounds. Dogs are mostly ignored by organization theory despite the existence of a rich literature on human-animal studies that helps the theoretical extension in the direction of organization studies. The theme of human-dog int...

A gestão por objetivos (GPO) está de tal modo presente na vida das organizações que quase não nos damos conta de que ela existe. Mas está presente em todos os tipos de organizações, tanto no setor público como no privado. O seu potencial positivo é indubitável, mas o seu potencial lado escuro não pode ser ignorado. É essa dupla face que este livro...

Members of our research team were invited to facilitate a leadership development program for sixteen middle managers in an organization undergoing a culture change process. The change process, implemented across all regional divisions of this multinational organization operating within the highly regulated healthcare sector, sought to create a more...

Resilience is a capacity developed and deployed over time rather than an effective reaction to a single event (Hamel & Välikangas, 2003; Reinmoeller & Baardwijk, 2005). Such a capacity can be expressed at different levels of aggregation, spanning from individuals to entire communities (e.g. Van Der Vegt et al., 2015). The brilliant examination of t...

As recalled in the call for paper of the LAEMOS 2018 Sub-Theme 16, the centrality of resilience in contemporary managerial discourse is mostly related to the social, political, environmental and economic turmoil – organizational ‘jolts’ (Meyer, 1982) – to which organizations have been exposed during the past decades. In a world ‘becoming turbulent...

We assess the perceived impact of leaders’ humility (both self and other-reported) on team effectiveness, and how this relationship is mediated by balanced processing of information. Ninety-six leaders (plus 307 subordinates, 96 supervisors, and 656 peers of those leaders) participate in the study. The findings suggest that humility in leaders (as...

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Purpose – We study if the employees’ optimism-pessimism ratio predicts their creativity. Design/methodology/approach – One hundred and thirty-four employees reported their optimism and pessimism, and the respective supervisors described the employees’ creativity. Findings – The relationship between the optimism-pessimism ratio and creativity is c...