International Conference on Economics, Finance & Business, Vienna

HYBRID LEADERSHIP STYLE IN KIBBUTZ INDUSTRIES TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABILITY

YAFFA MOSKOVICH, ORNA ACHRAI

Abstract:

This study investigates the use of a hybrid leadership style in three kibbutz factories—two in privatized communities and one in a cooperative community. The factory leaders integrate multiple leadership styles in managing their enterprises. This blended style reflects a hybrid approach to management that has democratic and autocratic elements, and a transformational leadership style that is also community-oriented. The goals of the managers are to make the factory operations sustainable while remaining loyal to communal values. Using the results of 75 interviews in the three kibbutzim with individuals from various ranks, ranging from senior leadership to production workers. In addition, to supplement the information, we analyzed organizational documents, including internal newsletters, reports, and booklets summarizing 50 years of activity, as well as news articles that provided up-to-date information on business transactions that contributed to the success of the kibbutz industries. The result identified hybrid style, that combines: communal, transformational and democratic or autocratic style. many features of communal leadership this was found by recurring kibbutz members rather them outsiders and by strategy to the long rum to maintain the industry for kibbutz members and egalitarian communal style. Some of the results analyze the hybrid style that contains democratic features and transparent and open communication and transformational style that was found in key components of this leadership style: innovation, professionalism, dynamism, adaptability to environmental changes, and human sensitivity.

Keywords: kibbutz industry, kibbutz community, hybrid leadership, democratic leadership, transformational leadership

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