Effective Leadership through BCE Model: A Rejoinder to Obi-Nwosu’s BCE Leadership Paradigm

Abstract

Leadership is visible and manifest when it can move an organization forward hence, leadership is the key factor to the survival of any organization. Analysis of successive university administrations which rated the Egboka’s administration highly as articulated by Obi-Nwosu [1] shows that encoded in the acronym (BCE) is the secret of his administrative success. These secrets are: Bridging communication gaps, Contingencies, and Evocative orientation. These special skills were examined theoretically in juxta position with existing paradigms on effective leadership and there were some resemblance, therefore the claims of the BCE leadership paradigm possess theoretical validation. The paradigm should in like manner have positive effect on desirable organizational outcomes such as low turnover intensions, absenteeism, OCB, and productivity. These are the assumptions that were discussed in the present paper.

 

Keywords: BCE leadership paradigm, Effective leadership, organizational outcome.