Leadership in Diversity Organizations, and Immigrants' Organizational Commitment and Subjective General Health
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Master thesisNot peer reviewed

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2014-04-16Author
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The purpose of this paper is to examine leadership styles in managing cultural diversity from
the LIDO-model at workplaces in Norway, and investigate the relationships between
perceived leadership styles with immigrants’ organizational commitment and subjective
general health through online survey. The leadership styles from the LIDO-model are
diversity leadership, assimilation leadership, separation leadership, and laissez-faire
leadership. The relationships were measured by the Diversity Management Questionnaire, the
Organizational Commitment Questionnaire, and the 12-item version of General Health
Questionnaire. The sample consisted of 260 participants with both native and immigrant
backgrounds from Eastern Europe and South-East Asia. Data were analyzed through Pearson
correlation and hierarchical regression analyses. The results indicated significant associations
between assimilation/separation leadership and continuance commitment (p < .05), and
significant association between diversity leadership and subjective general health (p < .05).
Although these results have provided a better understanding of the relationships between
perceived leadership styles, and immigrants’ organizational commitment and subjective
general health at workplaces in Norway, more research is needed to conclude on these
relationships.
Publisher
The University of BergenSubject
Leadershipdiversitydiversity leadershipimmigrantorganizational commitmentsubjective general healthCollections
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