TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kanungo,R.N.
AU  - Menon,S.T.
TI  - Managerial resourcefulness: measuring a critical component of leadership effectiveness
SN  - 0971-3557
AV  - HB615 JOU 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New Dehli
PB  - Sage
KW  - Managerial resourcefulness
KW  - Leadership effectiveness
N2  - Kanungo and Misra (1992) distinguished ‘skills’ from managerial ‘competencies’, the latter being the basic components of a manager’s resourcefulness. Resourcefulness is critical in performing leadership roles that require coping with non-routine, unprogrammable and ill-structured tasks. This paper attempts to clarify the nature of the resourcefulness construct by operationalising it in terms of three basic competencies: affective, intellectual and action-oriented. An empirical study involving 485 managers revealed the underlying structure of resourcefulness as closely paralleling the three competencies. In addition, a fourth overarching dimension of goal-directed problem orientation emerged from the analysis. The study yielded a psychometrically sound measure of managerial resourcefulness with convergent, discriminant and criteria-related concurrent validity. The measure can be used as a diagnostic tool for recruitment and training purposes
UR  - 10.1177/097135570401400103
ER  -