Question 21 3 pts Jane has contracted you as a consultant to help her turnaround

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Question 21 3 pts Jane has contracted you as a consultant to help her turnaround the performance of the organization's leadership. She is concerned because her management team has tried many different interventions. Despite strong claims made by members of her management team in favor of the their preferred option, all have failed to increase performance. The organization's performance continues to lag behind other companies in the industry. She is willing to take some further risk by instituting further changes. However, Jane fears her organization has experienced so much change without substantive results. Consequently, she requests that you suggest only one or two factors for the focus of a renewed organizational improvement effort She also asks that you consider the risk of intervention failure when making your recommendation. You conduct an evidence-based analysis which identifies the following papers as studies of performance which could inform your recommendation. Which choice below summarizes a conclusion that would be most correct according to an evidence-based analysis? Bakker. A. B. Tims, M.&Derks; D.(2012). Proactive personality and job performance: The role of iob crafting and work engagement. Human Relations,65(10), 1359-1378 Refer to Figure 2 for the correlations. Christian M. S., Garza A S.. & Slaughter. J. E. (2011).Work engagement A quantitative review and test of its relations with task and contextual performance. Personnel Psychology, 4(1), 89-136. Refer to Figure 2 for the correlations Harter. J.K. Schmidt, F.L.& Hayes.T. L. (2002) Business-unit-level relationship between employee satisfaction employee engagement, and business outcomes: a meta-analysis Journal of Applied Psychology, 87(2),268-279,Refer to Table 5 for the correlations.

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The below choice would be the right one.

To reduce risk by relying exclusively on the evidence of the higest quality you could combine a focus on implementing both transformational and transactional leadership strategies

Reason:

Evidence based analysis means:

- Use of statistical research evidiences to arrive at a conclusion and take decisions accordingly.

- Can evaluate all the avaliable research and the interpret the same.

In this case, Jane wanted to turnaround leadership performance without failure

Hence we have to use the higest quality evidence data firstly

Then the need of hour for this organisation is a Transformational leadership style leaders who could transform and turnaround the organization towards increased performance and productivity

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