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    Introverted and extroverted personality traits of leaders and OCB of followers: Moderating effect of leader-member relationship in Sri Lankan IT industry
    (Research Symposium on Pure and Applied Sciences, 2018 Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Niranga, W. A. M.; Dharmadasa, M. P. P.
    Research on relationship between personality and leadership supports the notion that individual differences may be the predictor of leadership effectiveness in contemporary organizations. Extant studies stress that each of the Big-Five broad personality dimensions is related to leader criteria. In general, effective leaders describe themselves from their personality traits and the relationship they build with followers. However, relatively a few studies have tested how and why a leader’s personality traits relate to follower behaviours. As a result, this study is especially focuses on whether introverted and extroverted personality traits of leaders influence the Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) of followers. Accordingly, the main aims of the present study are to investigate the impact of the introverted and extroverted personality traits of leaders on OCB of followers and to examine the role of leader-member relationship as a moderator, on the relationship between leader personality and OCB of followers. To advance the understanding of these, simple regression analysis and moderator regression were used to test hypotheses in the present study with a sample size of 46 introvert managers and 50 extrovert managers as leaders and 92 and 100 subordinates as their followers respectively from IT industry in Sri Lanka. The study found that there is a positive direct effect of introverted traits of leaders on OCB of followers and no negative direct effect of extroverted traits of leaders on OCB of followers. Yet, leader-member relationship moderates the relationship between introverted and extroverted personality traits of leaders and OCB of followers. Based on the results, there is a synergistic effect on moderation of introverted traits and antagonistic effect of extroverted traits. Further, the study suggests that introverted leader personality trait is a foundational leader characteristic for the OCB of followers and social exchange relationships. This study makes several theoretical and managerial contributions to make information technology firms success through personality traits of leaders and OCB of followers.
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    A Review on Holistic Leadership and Knowledge Creation in Corporate Entrepreneurial Research
    (Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2020) Niranga, W. A. M.
    Research on corporate entrepreneurship supports the notion that different leadership styles and behaviours of the corporate management may be the predictors for the emergence of more favorable entrepreneurial practices in the contemporary organizations. Furthermore, corporate entrepreneurship is challenging in contemporary organizations due to high technical HR systems, organizational hierarchies, culture, traditional leadership approach and lack of entrepreneurial knowledge. Therefore, it is the responsibility of corporate leaders to provide a holistic approach to their employees to develop more novel ideas which lead to effective organizational performance in the future. However, entrepreneurial practices was not the foremost focus of many managers as they directly focused on short term achievements of the company rather than the developmental opportunities which will give a return in the future (Jong & Hartog, 2007). Even though extant studies stress that holistic leadership of management and orientation plays a vital role, relatively few studies (Kodama M., 2017; Kodama M., 2018) have tested how and why holistic leadership such an overall understanding emerge for corporate entrepreneurship. Therefore, the main drive of this study is to create an enhanced understanding of how corporate entrepreneurial studies has grown pertaining to the holistic leadership and its outcomes over the past decades.