We examined the influence of general mental ability, self-esteem and family socioeconomic status on leadership role occupancy and leader advancement (defined as the increase in supervisory scope via the number of employees supervised), as well as the moderating role of gender in these relationships.  ...

Although a leader's integrity seems to be essential for effective leadership no empirical studies have examined the relationship between leader behavioral integrity (the consistency between words and actions) and follower job performance....

Issues regarding workplace spirituality have received increased attention in the organizational sciences. The implications of workplace spirituality for leadership theory research and practice make this a fast growing area of new research and inquiry by scholars....

Confident leaders are seen as competent and capable by others. However excessive amounts of confidence may be detrimental to a leader's performance. The purpose of the current study was to identify indicators of overconfidence and examine the influence that overconfidence has on certain kinds of leader performance....

We advance the discussion that each leader has a moral component that can be defined as character that is distinct from values personality and other similar constructs....

Using an evolutionary psychology framework we propose that leadership and followership are evolved traits to solve recurrent group coordination problems.We argue that adaptive problems such as those concerning intergroup conflict ...

Collaborative or shared leadership has frequently been advocated as an alternative to vertical or top-down leadership. Building on the conceptual and theoretical aspects of collaborative leadership developed in previous research this study examined the specific communication behaviors and processes used to create collaborative leadership....

Transformational leadership (TFL) climate describes the degree to which leaders throughout an organization engage in TFL behaviors.In this study we investigate performance linkages mechanisms and boundary conditions of TFL climate at the organizational level of analysis....

Using leadership theory we examined whether transformational leadership mediates the link between the emotional intelligence of team leaders and three outcomes as perceived by followers: leader effectiveness team effectiveness and service climate....

In seeking to understand the factors contributing to work group creativity in Chinese...