The Effect Of Leadership Style On CIO Effectiveness

Author

Kishen Parthasarathy Iyengar

Graduation Semester and Year

2008

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy in Information Systems

Department

Information Systems and Operations Management

First Advisor

James Teng

Abstract

While IS researchers have often opined that leadership is important, a theoretical examination of leadership in the CIO context is lacking. We examine Leadership style in the light of the transformational leadership theory and its impact on organizational level variables such as CIO Role Effectiveness and IT ambidexterity, and individual level variables such as Leader-Member Exchange Relationship and the subordinate's general job satisfaction. Results indicate that contingent rewarding style impacted CIO role effectiveness, which in turn predicted IT ambidexterity. Transformational leadership was the strongest predictor of Leader-Member Exchange relationship, which in turn impacted job satisfaction.

Disciplines

Business | Management Information Systems

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

Comments

Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington

Recommended Citation

Iyengar, Kishen Parthasarathy, "The Effect Of Leadership Style On CIO Effectiveness" (2008). Information Systems & Operations Management Dissertations. 27.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/infosystemsopmanage_dissertations/27