Document Type : Exploratory
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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Public Management, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
2 MSc. Department of Public Manegement, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Traditional leadership's emphasis on top-down communication limits the possibility of collaboration and creativity, and the one-size-fits-all approach to all employees in styles such as command leadership ignores the adaptation of the tactics used by the leader to individual abilities and situational conditions..Based on positive psychology research, employees are more likely to achieve optimal performance levels at work when they focus on their strengths rather than their weaknesses. This study presents the strengths-based leadership model at Payame Noor University. It is an applied-exploratory study based on a grounded theory approach. The data collection tool used in the study was a semi-structured interview. The statistical sample consisted of 15 management experts selected through purposive sampling. To analyze the qualitative research data, MAXQDA 2020 software was utilized. A total of 29 subcodes were extracted from the experts' responses.The analysis of interview themes and the organization of subcategories revealed that strengths-based leadership emerges as a central phenomenon influenced by causal conditions such as training, a spirit of collaboration, personality traits, and a strengths-based mindset. Actions such as skill enhancement, evaluation, and team orientation within the strengths-based leadership model lead to outcomes such as organizational development, creativity, job satisfaction, and organizational participation. However, in this model, contextual factors such as structure, culture, and the organizational environment, along with intervening conditions, influence the relationships within the framework
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