Effective Leadership Strategies, Employee Performance, and Organizational Sustainability in the Boxing Industry

• Main Author: Ali, Rita
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: ScholarWorks 2018
• Subjects: Case Study; Effective Leadership; Employee performance; Organizational sustainability; Qualitative; Sport of Boxing Industry; Business; Other Education; Sports Management
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5158; https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6437&context=dissertations

Ineffective leadership impedes employee performance and threatens organizational sustainability, causing U.S. businesses to spend billions of dollars addressing such issues. Correspondingly, boxing promotion companies are challenged as some leaders lack strategies to improve employee performance. This single case study was focused on leadership strategies utilized in the boxing promotion industry to improve employee performance. Transformational and charismatic leadership theories were the conceptual framework for this study. The data consisted of semistructured interviews with 8 participants from 1 organization (4 leaders and 4 subordinates), as well as document review of company training materials. The 6-step model for thematic analysis coding procedure was used for data analysis. Five themes/strategies emerged: leading by example, inspiring/fostering teamwork, honest communication, people-driven actions, innovative/adaptive organizational change, and providing rewards were each associated with effective transactional leadership for increasing performance and sustainability. The consensus among participants was that effective leadership is a significant factor in improving employee performance, maintaining constructive leader-subordinate relationships, and increasing organizational sustainability. The social change implications include community economic enhancement. When organizational performance, as well as local economies and communities have the potential to thrive, local spending and use of community resources may also increase to stimulate local economies.