Explore how leadership balance and budget participation shape performance in manufacturing settings, with practical takeaways for managers.
This study examines how two leadership styles—consideration and initiating structure—interact with budget involvement to affect performance in real organizations. It uses two distinct samples from manufacturing environments to test whether balanced versus unbalanced leadership affects outcomes and how budget participation might modify those effects.
Readers will gain an understanding of:
- the idea of leadership balance vs. imbalance and its relationship to performance
- how budgetary participation can act as a moderator in these relationships
- phase-based findings across self-ratings and supervisor ratings
- the value and limits of applying these ideas in manufacturing settings
Ideal for readers of organizational behavior and managerial accounting who want evidence-based insights on leadership, budgeting, and performance.
Robert N. Anthony is the Ross Graham Walker Professor Emeritus of Management Control at Harvard Business School. Professor Anthony has been a director of Carborundum Company and Warnaco, Inc., both Fortune 500 companies; for 25 years he has been a trustee of Colby College, including five years as chairman of the board. He has consulted for many companies and government agencies, including General Motors Corp., AT&T, the General Accounting Office, and the Cost Accounting Standards Board. Among Professor Anthony's awards are the Distinguished Accounting Educator of the Year Award from AAA, Accounting Educator of the Year Award from Beta Alpha Psi, the Meritorious Service Award from the Executive Office of the President, the Distinguished Public Service Medal of the Department of Defense, Comptroller General's Award of the U.S. General Accounting Office and Distinguished Service Award of the Harvard Business School Association.