Toby Newstead
Biographic Data
| ID | 5144482 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Toby Newstead |
| GIVEN NAMES | Toby |
| FAMILY NAME | Newstead |
| SIGNATURE | NEWSTEAD T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4678-7593 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Toward Construct Clarity in Followership Research
Accelerating interest in followership research and practice is advancing development of followership as a field of study. Despite this, many are still confused by what followership is and how it differs from leadership. Findings from our review of followership research show that of the papers self-identified as followership, nearly half are more accurately described as leadership or general employee behavior (and not followership). Of the papers …
Crisis leadership reimagined
Crisis leadership is typically constructed as a manly endeavor, both in popular culture and much research. These accounts celebrate and reinforce a crisis leader prototype that emphasizes manliness, toughness, dominance, risk-taking, and vengeance as key to leading through crisis. Because women and attributes associated with femininity are incongruent with this prototype, its influence impedes women’s leadership. Further, by preferencing behavior…
Sustaining emergency volunteer workforces
Disaster response and community resilience depend on the service of emergency volunteers, particularly those who fulfil roles that entail long-term and consistent time commitment. Given the critical role emergency volunteers play, it is vital to understand how to improve their satisfaction and commitment to continue volunteering. This paper explores the relationships between four different types of leader behaviour (task, relations, change-orient…
How AI can perpetuate – Or help mitigate – Gender bias in leadership
Generative AI tools have been adopted faster than any other technology in history. AI tools including both chatbots (e.g. ChatGPT, Bard) and long-form AI writers (e.g. Wordplay.ai, Jasper.ai) pose substantial efficiency gains for text-reliant industries, such as leadership development. However, our research shows that AI generated content can contain and perpetuate harmful leadership-related gender biases. In this article, we share evidence of ho…
Leading Volunteer Motivation
Events such as pandemics, natural disasters, and other social issues reveal societies’ increasing reliance on voluntary unpaid workers. However, there is a decline in people’s willingness to volunteer with established organisations. While management research has shown that leadership plays a major role in motivating and retaining paid employees, further investigation is needed to understand how leadership motivates volunteers. This paper integrat…
Being Explicit About Virtues
The virtues of effective crisis leadership
Crisis Leadership
There is no situation where leadership is more important than during a crisis, and yet crisis leadership is a relatively underdeveloped field. This article explores what we know and what remains unknown about crisis leadership. We begin with an overview of what crises are, including different types and key dynamics of crises. We then review four leadership theories that offer insights into crisis leadership before elucidating five key competencie…
We don't need more leaders – We need more good leaders. Advancing a virtues-based approach to leader(ship) development
Evaluating The Virtues Project as a leadership development programme
This article contributes to an emerging field of virtue-based leadership development scholarship by reporting on the first known empirical evaluation of The Virtues Project as a leadership development programme. This exploratory study seeks to understand if or how The Virtues Project might facilitate the development of good leaders. Our understanding of ‘good’ is informed by the notion of virtue and the philosophy of virtue ethics, and we adopt a…
Making Sense of the Weather
Drawing on ethnographic data collected throughout British Columbia’s coastal regions, in this article, the authors examine people’s experiences of ordinary weather. Data show how people experience weather multisensorially and how the weather plays a central role in the way individuals and collectives define sense of place. Experiences of weather, the authors argue, are a reflexive and active form of dwelling. A focus on skillful embodied practice…
Making Sense of the Weather
Drawing on ethnographic data collected throughout British Columbia’s coastal regions, in this article, the authors examine people’s experiences of ordinary weather. Data show how people experience weather multisensorially and how the weather plays a central role in the way individuals and collectives define sense of place. Experiences of weather, the authors argue, are a reflexive and active form of dwelling. A focus on skillful embodied practice…
Leading Volunteer Motivation
Events such as pandemics, natural disasters, and other social issues reveal societies’ increasing reliance on voluntary unpaid workers. However, there is a decline in people’s willingness to volunteer with established organisations. While management research has shown that leadership plays a major role in motivating and retaining paid employees, further investigation is needed to understand how leadership motivates volunteers. This paper integrat…
Making Sense of the Weather
Drawing on ethnographic data collected throughout British Columbia’s coastal regions, in this article, the authors examine people’s experiences of ordinary weather. Data show how people experience weather multisensorially and how the weather plays a central role in the way individuals and collectives define sense of place. Experiences of weather, the authors argue, are a reflexive and active form of dwelling. A focus on skillful embodied practice…
Evaluating The Virtues Project as a leadership development programme
This article contributes to an emerging field of virtue-based leadership development scholarship by reporting on the first known empirical evaluation of The Virtues Project as a leadership development programme. This exploratory study seeks to understand if or how The Virtues Project might facilitate the development of good leaders. Our understanding of ‘good’ is informed by the notion of virtue and the philosophy of virtue ethics, and we adopt a…
We don't need more leaders – We need more good leaders. Advancing a virtues-based approach to leader(ship) development
Being Explicit About Virtues
The virtues of effective crisis leadership
Crisis Leadership
There is no situation where leadership is more important than during a crisis, and yet crisis leadership is a relatively underdeveloped field. This article explores what we know and what remains unknown about crisis leadership. We begin with an overview of what crises are, including different types and key dynamics of crises. We then review four leadership theories that offer insights into crisis leadership before elucidating five key competencie…
How AI can perpetuate – Or help mitigate – Gender bias in leadership
Generative AI tools have been adopted faster than any other technology in history. AI tools including both chatbots (e.g. ChatGPT, Bard) and long-form AI writers (e.g. Wordplay.ai, Jasper.ai) pose substantial efficiency gains for text-reliant industries, such as leadership development. However, our research shows that AI generated content can contain and perpetuate harmful leadership-related gender biases. In this article, we share evidence of ho…
Leading Volunteer Motivation
Events such as pandemics, natural disasters, and other social issues reveal societies’ increasing reliance on voluntary unpaid workers. However, there is a decline in people’s willingness to volunteer with established organisations. While management research has shown that leadership plays a major role in motivating and retaining paid employees, further investigation is needed to understand how leadership motivates volunteers. This paper integrat…
Sustaining emergency volunteer workforces
Disaster response and community resilience depend on the service of emergency volunteers, particularly those who fulfil roles that entail long-term and consistent time commitment. Given the critical role emergency volunteers play, it is vital to understand how to improve their satisfaction and commitment to continue volunteering. This paper explores the relationships between four different types of leader behaviour (task, relations, change-orient…
Toward Construct Clarity in Followership Research
Accelerating interest in followership research and practice is advancing development of followership as a field of study. Despite this, many are still confused by what followership is and how it differs from leadership. Findings from our review of followership research show that of the papers self-identified as followership, nearly half are more accurately described as leadership or general employee behavior (and not followership). Of the papers …
Crisis leadership reimagined
Crisis leadership is typically constructed as a manly endeavor, both in popular culture and much research. These accounts celebrate and reinforce a crisis leader prototype that emphasizes manliness, toughness, dominance, risk-taking, and vengeance as key to leading through crisis. Because women and attributes associated with femininity are incongruent with this prototype, its influence impedes women’s leadership. Further, by preferencing behavior…
Political science (8 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Leadership development (4 works) · Management (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)