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The Manager as Coach: Cross-Cultural Adaptation of an Instrument Assessing Managers’ Coaching Skills

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While coaching has been conceived as a new managerial strategy and effective leadership initiative in organizations, the concept of ‘manager as coach’ has gained considerably popularity. In this context, the interest for reliable and valid tools to assess managers’ coaching skills increased among practitioners and organizations. This paper provides additional analyses of an instrument assessing managers’ coaching skills in business settings and examines a theoretical model in identifying manager coaching skills from two informational sources, namely self-report and other-report. This work does not only continue the development of the base of empirical research on managerial coaching, but also offers some guidelines for further testing and development of valid and reliable instruments for the assessment and understanding of managers’ coaching skills.

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  1. Departament de Psicologia Clínica i de la Salut, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Andreea Munteanu

  2. Department of Psychology, Babes-Bolyai University, 37 Republicii, 400015, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Lucia Raţiu

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Munteanu, A., Raţiu, L. The Manager as Coach: Cross-Cultural Adaptation of an Instrument Assessing Managers’ Coaching Skills. J Rat-Emo Cognitive-Behav Ther 36, 303–319 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10942-015-0221-z

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