Previous research on upper echelon (i.e. top-level) executives has focused on how character flaws or lapses in ethical judgment lead to detrimental outcomes. Research is lacking that specifically examines whether character strengths that are reflected in the behaviors of top-level executives are related to positive outcomes....

Individualized leadership (IL) was studied in 11 independent formally assigned senior-level relationships....

Perhaps nowhere are leaders more pivotal than in the extreme contexts of responding to the aftermath of natural disasters or orchestrating post-war stability support transition and reconstruction efforts....

Regardless of the quality of the decisions, teams that fail to effectively implement their decisions have accomplished nothing. Teams that derive decisions through a conflictual process may find that their members lack commitment to their decision due to the nature of the conflict the team experienced....

Empirical work on the concept of abusive supervision typically employs measurements of subordinates' perceptions of abuse as the primary dependent variable....

Leader categorization theory suggests that subordinates implicitly compare their leaders with a cognitively represented ideal image of a leader i.e. an ideal leader prototype. The better the match, the more favorable subordinates' attitudes toward their leaders will be....

This field experimental study examined the role that positive leadership plays in producing effective leader and follower outcomes. Specifically a sample of engineers (N=106) from a very large aerospace firm were randomly assigned to four experimental conditions....

Based on the literature and expert interviews we developed a new measure the C-LEAD scale to capture the efficacy of leaders to assess information and make decisions in a public health and safety crisis....

Two experimental studies examined whether gender stereotypes about the transformational transactional and laissez-faire leadership styles constitute an advantage or an impediment for women's access to leadership positions in organizations....

This study examines how CEO empowering leadership shapes top management team (TMT) behavioral integration and potency thereby enhancing firm performance....