'É melhor em conjunto': uma análise de clusters à auto-liderança e a sua relação com a inovação individual em enfermeiros hospitalares

Self-leadership is designed to influence positive outcomes like individuals’ innovative capacity in the workplace. Nevertheless, research on the relationship between self-leadership and individual innovation has failed to determine which self-leadership strategies contribute to innovation. Thus, this study aims to: explore the existence of different profiles of self-leadership strategies in hospital nurses and, test if these different profiles have different effects on individuals’ ability to be innovative. 288 nurses participated in this study. Firstly, data was analysed using Cluster analysis. Secondly, to verify the significance of the association between self-leadership clusters and individual innovation chi-square tests were conducted and the adjusted residuals were considered. Results revealed the existence of 3 different clusters of self-leadership, and that individual innovation is more frequent when all self-leadership strategies are used. The findings suggest that self-leadership strategies vary between individuals and that they all should be fostered in order to promote individual innovation.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Teamwork in Portugal: A decade of progress

Na última década em Portugal assistimos à explosão do número de estudos acerca dos fatores psicológicos e contextuais que antecedem a eficácia das equipas em ambientes de trabalho complexos e extremos. Esta investigação tem-se centrado em torno dos aspetos comportamentais (e.g. coordenação, liderança), cognitivos (e.g. modelos mentais partilhados, sistemas de memória transitiva) e afetivos (e.g. coesão, team work engagement) que nos ajudam a explicar por que razão algumas equipas têm um desempenho melhor, estão mais satisfeitas com o seu trabalho e acreditam que são mais viáveis (mesmo as que trabalham em condições adversas). Ao longo deste artigo, fazemos não só uma revisão da investigação feita sobre o tema do trabalho em equipa nos últimos dez anos em Portugal, como estabelecemos pontes com outros trabalhos internacionais e apresentamos algumas sugestões para o futuro da investigação desta área na próxima década.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

The mediating effect of work engagement on the relationship between self-leadership and individual innovation

It has already been demonstrated that individual innovation within the workplace is the fundamental underpinning of high-performance organisations. The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between self-leadership, work engagement and individual innovation. Because innovation manifests itself when individuals feel engaged with their work, we propose that this positive affective motivational state will mediate the relationship between self-leadership skills and individual innovation. To study these relationships, data were collected from a sample of 337 nurses and doctors who work at an integrated health care unit. Our results show a positive relationship between self-leadership, work engagement and individual innovation. Furthermore, the results showed that work engagement had a mediating effect on the relationship between self-leadership and individual innovation. Overall, this research will contribute towards gaining more insights into the role that self-leadership and work engagement play in individual innovation. In addition, it will provide insights into new interventions that promote the development of innovation at work.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

The mediating effect of work engagement on the relationship between self-leadership and individual innovation

It has already been demonstrated that individual innovation within the workplace is the fundamental underpinning of high-performance organisations. The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between self-leadership, work engagement and individual innovation. Because innovation manifests itself when individuals feel engaged with their work, we propose that this positive affective motivational state will mediate the relationship between self-leadership skills and individual innovation. To study these relationships, data were collected from a sample of 337 nurses and doctors who work at an integrated health care unit. Our results show a positive relationship between self-leadership, work engagement and individual innovation. Furthermore, the results showed that work engagement had a mediating effect on the relationship between self-leadership and individual innovation. Overall, this research will contribute towards gaining more insights into the role that self-leadership and work engagement play in individual innovation. In addition, it will provide insights into new interventions that promote the development of innovation at work.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

'É melhor em conjunto': uma análise de clusters à auto-liderança e a sua relação com a inovação individual em enfermeiros hospitalares

Self-leadership is designed to influence positive outcomes like individuals’ innovative capacity in the workplace. Nevertheless, research on the relationship between self-leadership and individual innovation has failed to determine which self-leadership strategies contribute to innovation. Thus, this study aims to: explore the existence of different profiles of self-leadership strategies in hospital nurses and, test if these different profiles have different effects on individuals’ ability to be innovative. 288 nurses participated in this study. Firstly, data was analysed using Cluster analysis. Secondly, to verify the significance of the association between self-leadership clusters and individual innovation chi-square tests were conducted and the adjusted residuals were considered. Results revealed the existence of 3 different clusters of self-leadership, and that individual innovation is more frequent when all self-leadership strategies are used. The findings suggest that self-leadership strategies vary between individuals and that they all should be fostered in order to promote individual innovation.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Cognitive maps in early entrepreneurship stages: from motivation to implementation

The purpose of this research is to contribute to the explanation of cognitive maps during early entrepreneurship stages. Three groups were selected to represent different developmental states in early entrepreneurship. Individual interviews were conducted, the data were computer content analysed and cognitive maps were extracted. The results show that entrepreneurship experience develops the structure of cognitive maps, increasing clarity, richness and experience-based features. The originality of the research resides in the inclusion of entrepreneurial motivation in business opportunity recognition and the decision to launch a venture model. Through a cross-sectional design, a temporal perspective is captured by including different entrepreneurship stages

Atitude dos estudantes universitários face ao empreendedorismo. Como identificar o potencial empreendedor?

Este trabalho focaliza-se nas atitudes dos estudantes universitários face ao empreendedorismo apresentando um modelo teórico do potencial empreendedor, construído com base numa revisão de literatura em que se procura sistematizar as principais características psicológicas diferenciadoras do indivíduo empreendedor: as motivações empreendedoras; as competências psicológicas; as competências sociais; e as competências de gestão. No âmbito de um projecto em desenvolvimento, o constructo de potencial empreendedor foi operacionalizado através de um Inventário de Avaliação do Potencial Empreendedor (IAPE©) e testado numa amostra de estudantes universitários de Ciências Sociais, da Saúde, de Gestão e das Tecnologias (N = 521). Os resultados evidenciam que existem diferenças significativas entre os estudantes universitários nas quatro dimensões do potencial empreendedor. Complementarmente, desenvolveu-se e testou-se o Índice do Potencial Empreendedor (IPE), cujo algoritmo se apresenta neste trabalho, bem como os seus resultados. Na amostra utilizada, os estudantes de Ciências da Gestão são os que apresentam um valor médio de IPE mais elevado. Em termos de aplicação, o IAPE© e o IPE são duas ferramentas para a promoção do empreendedorismo nas universidades, designadamente na concepção e realização de cursos e iniciativas focalizados na formação e treino dos estudantes, com aplicações práticas na construção de cursos de empreendedorismo

Thought self-leadership and effectiveness in self-management teams

This study empirically examines the multilevel nature of thought self-leadership at work. Furthermore, this study tests the relationship between team level thought self-leadership and team effectiveness (i.e. performance and viability) through collective efficacy. A total of 103 selfmanagement teams (453 individuals), enrolled in a five-week management competition participated in the study. The results from multilevel confirmatory factor analysis suggest that thought self-leadership is functionally equivalent across levels of analysis (i.e. individuals and teams). In addition, we found an indirect effect of team level thought self-leadership on team effectiveness criteria, through collective efficacy. These findings extend previous work on thought self-leadership and team effectiveness, and open new roads for research in self-managing work teams. Finally, this study also provides guidelines for organizations in case they wish to foster team performance and viability in their work force.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Adapting the revised self-leadership questionnaire to the Portuguese context

WOS:000306590800011 (Nº de Acesso Web of Science) “Prémio Científico ISCTE-IUL 2013”This study aimed to adapt the Revised Self-Leadership Questionnaire (RSLQ) (Houghton and Neck in J Manag Psychol 17(8):672–691, 2002) for the Portuguese population. 720 professionals, and university and post-graduate students participated in this study. The RSLQ factorial structure was accessed through exploratory and multi group confirmatory factor analysis. From the 9 sub dimensional and 34 items original scale, only 7 sub dimensions and 21 items were preserved. The model tested through cross-validation multigroup analysis proved to be totally invariant across the groups, suggesting good model fit