A meta-analysis of leadership and intrinsic motivation: Examining relative importance and moderators
Leadership Research Summary: • This paper provides the first meta-analytic examination of the relationship between leadership and followers’ intrinsic motivation. In particular, the study examined 6 leadership variables (transformational, ethical, leader-member exchange, servant, empowering, and abusive supervision) using data from 50 independent samples and 21,873 participants. • The study found that transformational leadership, ethical leadership, […]
Linking Identity Leadership and Team Performance: The Role of Group-Based Pride and Leader Political Skill
Leadership Research Summary: Recent trends in the leadership literature have promoted a social identity approach of leadership that views leadership as the process of representing, advancing, creating, and embedding a sense of shared identity within a group. However, a few empirical studies explore how and when global identity leadership affects team performance at the workplace. […]
“Perfect Leader, Perfect Leadership?” Linking Leaders’ Perfectionism to Monitoring, Transformational, and Servant Leadership Behavior
Leadership Research Summary: Despite the growing interest in perfectionism and its many facets, there is a lack of research on this phenomenon in the context of leadership. Attending to this deficit, the present study is the first to investigate the relationship between the three facets of perfectionism (self-oriented, socially prescribed, and other-oriented perfectionism) and three […]
The Role of Leadership Level in College Students’ Decision-Making: Evidence From Event-Related Potential Analysis
Leadership Research Summary: Although risk decision-making plays an important role in leadership practice, the distinction in behavior between humans with differing levels of leadership, as well as the underlying neurocognitive mechanisms involved, remain unclear. In this study, the Ultimatum Game (UG) was utilized in concert with electroencephalograms (EEG) to investigate the temporal course of cognitive […]
The Effect of Servant Leadership on Job Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Trust in Coworkers
Leadership Research Summary: A good deal of evidence indicates that servant leadership play a critical role in employees’ job outcomes. However, research studies on the variables that could mediate the effect of servant leadership in determining this relationship are relatively few. Utilizing the framework of leader-member exchange and social exchange theories, this study examines the […]
The Boss’s Long Arm: The Differential Impact of Authoritarian and Benevolent Leadership on Spousal Family Satisfaction
Leadership Research Summary: The extant studies on leadership are replete with employee, coworker, and leader outcomes, however, research is still nascent on leadership’s crossover into employees’ family members’ lives. To examine leadership’s impact on the work–family interface, the study draws on conservation of resources theory (COR) and crossover theory and investigate how authoritarian leadership and […]
Worrying About Leadership: Is It a Liability or an Advantage for Leadership of Women and Men?
Leadership Research Summary: Worries about leadership (WAL) is a new construct tapping worries an individual may feel about possible negative consequences of accepting a leadership role. Three studies investigate how WAL is associated with men’s and women’s willingness for leadership and their perceived leadership potential rated by others. The first is a laboratory study on […]
CEOs’ leadership behaviors and new venture team stability: The effects of knowledge hiding and team collectivism
Leadership Research Summary: The reasons for new venture team instability gradually have become a vital issue in the entrepreneurship literature. While chief executive officers’ (CEOs) leadership behaviors is regarded as a critical element of governance within new venture teams, few studies explored the role played by CEOs’ leadership behaviors in new venture team stability. Drawing […]
A Study on the Relationship between the Dynamic Behaviors of the Leader and Group Performance during Creativity
Leadership Research Summary: In order to foster collective creativity, the leader is seen to perform important functions in management or organization. Prior research tended to place more emphasis on the psychological and behavioral traits than on the dynamic leadership skills. Two experiments were run as part of this study to investigate the impact of emergent […]
Leader Humor and Followers’ Change-Oriented Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Role of Leader Machiavellianism
Leadership Research Summary: This study set out to find out how humor from leaders affects followers’ organizational citizenship behavior, which is change-oriented. The study concentrated on how the leader’s Machiavellian ideas affect the leader’s humor-change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior relationship. Using data from many stheces from the fthe battalions of the Republic of Korean Army, the […]