Battling Ingroup Bias With Effective Intergroup Leadership

Leadership Research Summary: Bias and intergroup conflict frequently exist amongst subgroups that are nested within of a superordinate group. As an intergroup leader, the superordinate group’s leader is crucial in minimizing conflict under these circumstances. To be effective, an intergroup leader must avoid (2) being perceived by one or both groups as “one of them” […]

Under The Humble Mask: Investigating When and How Leader-Expressed Humility Leads To Employee Voice

Leadership Research Summary: This study sought to investigate the psychological processes through which self-efficacy and psychological safety moderate the link between employee voice and leader-expressed humility. The potential negative impacts of a leader’s humility when followers believe their modest leader has manipulative motives were also investigated using the attribution theory. In order to reduce the […]

The Emergence of Creative Leaders Within Social Networks: The Case of Andy Warhol in the Art World of New York

Leadership Research Summary: The literature on creative leadership has identified personality characteristics, abilities, mental states, and behaviors that perform well in creative companies, but it has not yet addressed how creative leaders arise from social networks. In the context of modern visual arts, this conceptual study outlines the stages of creative leader development. This study […]

Gender Differences in the Perceived Behavior of Narcissistic Leaders

Leadership Research Summary: Although narcissists often emerge as leaders, the relationship between leader narcissism and follower performance is ambiguous and often even found to be negative. For women, narcissism seems especially likely to lead to negative evaluations. Since narcissists have the tendency to be impulsive and change their minds on a whim, they may come […]

Collective Traumas and the Development of Leader Values: A Currently Omitted, but Increasingly Urgent, Research Area

Leadership Research Summary: Despite the fact that there are many traumatic occurrences occurring throughout the world, the literature gives little attention to how these experiences may affect the growth of leaders. The values of leaders who are second- and third-generation descendants can be impacted by collective experience, such as genocide and the Holocaust, according to […]

Leader Psychological Need Satisfaction Trickles Down: The Role of Leader-Member Exchange

Leadership Research Summary: The effect of leader psychological need fulfilment on subordinates is discussed in this article. Researchers examined how leader psychological need fulfillment trickles down to employee psychological need satisfaction using the self-determination theory (SDT) and leader-member exchange (LMX) theories. Results from 1036 leader-employee pairs using a multi-actor, multi-level design show that employee-rated LMX […]