Developing leadership skills and resilience in turbulent times: A quasi experimental evaluation study
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate a leadership program in a way that captures leadership self efficacy, political skills (PS) and resilience in the form of indicators of health and well being that would have relevance for leadership roles in turbulent organizations. Design/methodology/approach The design was quasi experimental with pre and post measurement with unequal controls. Measurement was made through a mail survey before and after the leadership development program. n=107. Findings Program participants differed from the control group in the post measurement in that they reported higher levels on leadership self efficacy and had better health compared to a year earlier. Research limitations/implications Concepts like leadership self efficacy, PS and measures of health and well being can be used to operationalize and measure broad and contextually relevant outcomes of leadership development. Practical implications Evaluation of leadership development can benefit from includi.