Mindfulness is a multi-millenary concept that is fundamental to meditative traditions.
Nowadays it is a well-documented psychological construct and a proven therapeutic
technique, particularly in stress reduction and depressive relapse prevention. However,
mindfulness and its effects on management practices are still relatively unexplored in
the literature.
OBJECTIVES:
This paper aims to address this shortage and demonstrate the claims that mindfulness is
a psychological construct that is doubly beneficial to business executives by supporting
a more balanced relationship to work while promoting the adoption of more positive and
effective leadership behaviors (transformational leadership and authentic).
METHOD:
A model using positive forms of leadership as mediators of mindfulness / performance
relationship is proposed for this assessment. A quantitate analysis is performed on a
sample of 319 African managers, 95% of which are South Africans.
RESULTS:
The data supports the idea that mindfulness is a resource that can be mobilized for
inducing transformational and authentic leadership development and positive
organizational behaviors.
CONCLUSION:
Mindfulness seems to be a very interesting predictor of transformational and authentic
leadership styles, which prove to be the most powerful generators of performance
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