Cognitive shifts within leader and follower teams: Where consensus develops in mental models during an organizational crisis

Leadership Research Summary: • This empirical study investigates cognitive shifts in both leader and follower teams when developing consensus or agreement in how to resolve a slowly emerging organizational crisis over time. The cognitive maps of leaders and followers are analyzed in team settings to explain where consensus is formed. • The findings indicate that […]

Leaders’ sensemaking under crises: Emerging cognitive consensus over time within management teams

Leadership Research Summary: • When facing a crisis, leaders’ sensemaking can take a considerable amount of time due to the need to develop consensus in how to deal with it so that vision formation and sensegiving can take place. However, research into emerging cognitive consensus when leaders deal with a crisis over time is lacking. […]

On fire: Charismatic leadership and levels of analysis

Leadership Research Summary: • Charisma is a fire that ignites followers’ energy, commitment, and performance. Charisma resides not in a leader, nor in a follower, but in the relationship between a leader who has charismatic qualities and a follower who is open to charisma, within a charisma-conducive environment. When a leader shares charismatic relationships with […]

Beauty is in the in-group of the beholded: Intergroup differences in the perceived attractiveness of leaders

Leadership Research Summary: • Physical attractiveness is most commonly presumed to be an exogenous characteristic that influences people’s feelings, perceptions, and behavior across myriad types of relationships. The study investigated the opposite prediction in which feelings toward other people influence the perceptions of others’ attractiveness. Focusing specifically on subordinates’ perceptions of leaders of in-groups and […]

Situation effects and levels of analysis in the study of leader participation,

Leadership Research Summary: • Cumulative research pertaining to the Vroom-Yetton and Vroom-Jago models suggests that multiple levels of analysis are needed to understand a leader’s choice of autocratic versus participative behaviors. Leadership scales that simply aggregate behavior across situations are incapable of detecting situational and persons by situation effects that do, in fact, exist. Research […]

Abusive supervision: A systematic review and fundamental rethink

Leadership Research Summary: • The study reports a systematic and critical review of abusive supervision research to provide a comprehensive catalogue of the correlates of abusive supervision (i.e., antecedents, outcomes, mediators, and moderators) and identify four major challenges facing the field. • First, abusive supervision is conceptualized in a confused manner that conflates followers’ subjective […]

The problem of demand effects in power studies: Moving beyond power priming

Leadership Research Summary: • Power in experimental research has been commonly induced by methods that raise concerns regarding demand effects. In this paper, researchers investigate the empirical relevance of these concerns. In an incentivized online study (N = 1632), we manipulated the method of power manipulation (power priming vs. resource allocation), the level of power […]

CEO Heath

Leadership Research Summary: Using comprehensive data on 28 cohorts in Sweden, researchers analyze CEO health and its determinants and outcomes. The study find CEOs are in much better health than the population and on par with other high-skill professionals. These results apply in particular to mental health and to CEOs of larger companies. The study […]

Merger-specific trust cues in the development of trust in new supervisors during an organizational merger: A naturally occurring quasi-experiment

Leadership Research Summary: • Organizational mergers and subsequent restructurings often create situations in which employees are assigned a new supervisor and they start to form a new relationship. In this study, researchers investigated how the development of trust in a new supervisor is affected by trust cues specific to the merger context. The study conducted […]

Overlooked Leadership Potential: The Preference for Leadership Potential in Job Candidates Who Are Men vs. Women

Leadership Research Summary: • Two experiments tested the value people attach to the leadership potential and leadership performance of female and male candidates for leadership positions in an organizational hiring simulation. • In both experiments, participants (Total N = 297) valued leadership potential more highly than leadership performance, but only for male candidates. By contrast, […]