The relationship between Chinese preschool principal leadership styles and teacher leadership: Exploring the mediating effect of psychological capital

Leadership Research Summary: • Enhancing teacher leadership is not only one of the approaches to improving teaching and learning, but it is also essential to the success of education reform. Based on leader-member exchange theory, 294 preschool teachers in China were surveyed, and a structural equation model was established to explore the relationship between the […]

Authentic leadership: application to women leaders

Leadership Research Summary: • The purpose of this perspective article is to present the argument that authentic leadership is a gendered representation of leadership. • The study first provides a brief history of leadership theories and definitions of authentic leadership. • Researchers then critique authentic leadership and offer arguments to support the premise that authentic […]

Full-range public health leadership, part 1: quantitative analysis

Leadership Research Summary: • Workforce and public health development are central to the future of public health. However, public health has been slow to translate and apply leadership models from other professions and to incorporate local perspectives in understanding public health leadership. • This study utilized the full-range leadership model in order to examine public […]

From Believing to Doing: The Association Between Leadership Self-Efficacy and the Developmental Leadership Model

Leadership Research Summary: • The current study examined the association between leadership self-efficacy and the developmental leadership model. The purpose was to better understand how leadership training transfers to facets of developmental leadership. This was tested in a cross-sectional design with military commanders in the Swedish Armed Forces. • The results show that the sub-domain […]

The Bottleneck Metaphor of Leadership Culture: How Shared Understandings About Leadership Develop in Groups and Impede Diversity and Effectiveness of Leaders

Leadership Research Summary: • There are two big problems related to leadership today: unequal representation and high failure rates among leaders. This conceptual paper argues that commonly shared values, assumptions, and beliefs about leadership, i.e., universal leadership culture, are the common cause of both problems. After the concepts and levels related to leadership culture were […]

The Benefits of Merging Leadership Research and Emotions Research

Leadership Research Summary: • A closer merging of the literature on emotions with the research on leadership may prove advantageous to both fields. Leadership researchers will benefit by incorporating the research on emotional labor, emotional regulation, and happiness. Emotions researchers will be able to more fully consider how leadership demands influence emotional processes. In particular, […]

Effects of Authoritarian Leadership on Employees’ Safety Behavior: A Moderated Mediation Model

Leadership Research Summary: The study of athlete leadership has gained momentum over the past 15 years and is recognized as a vital component of team performance. Specifically, athlete leadership has been most studied with regards to its impact on the outcome of cohesion. As a result, a current gap in this area of research is […]

Assessing athlete leadership and cohesion using a social network analysis approach

Leadership Research Summary: The study of athlete leadership has gained momentum over the past 15 years and is recognized as a vital component of team performance. Specifically, athlete leadership has been most studied with regards to its impact on the outcome of cohesion. As a result, a current gap in this area of research is […]

Self-leadership as an attribute of service leadership: Its relationship to well-being among university students in Hong Kong

Leadership Research Summary: In the scientific literature, although conceptual models and empirical evidence have shown that leadership attributes are intimately linked to the well-being of followers, there is a lack of studies focusing on leadership in the service economy. According to the Service Leadership Theory, service leadership is a process that satisfies the needs of […]

Predicting Leadership Competency Development and Promotion Among High-Potential Executives: The Role of Leader Identity

Leadership Research Summary: Researchers propose that distinct leadership competencies differ in their development over time. Extending the integrative model of leader development (Day et al., 2009), the study further proposes that leader identity will form complex relationships with leadership competencies over time. To test these propositions, researchers use longitudinal data (i.e., 5 months, four measurement […]