Leadership & Organization Development Journal: Volume 37 Issue 8

How boards influence business performance: developing an explanation

Peter R. Crow, James C. Lockhart

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between boards and board activity and subsequent business performance, in the context of high-growth companies, through…

Effects of authentic leadership, affective commitment and job resourcefulness on employees’ creativity and individual performance

Ana Suzete Dias Semedo, Arnaldo Fernandes Matos Coelho, Neuza Manuel Pereira Ribeiro

The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of a study examining the relationship between authentic leadership (AL), attitudes and employees’ behaviours. More…

How does altruistic leader behavior foster radical innovation? The mediating effect of organizational learning capability

Emilio Domínguez Escrig, Francisco Fermín Mallén Broch, Ricardo Chiva Gómez, Rafael Lapiedra Alcamí

The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence of the relationship between altruistic leader behavior and radical innovation, using organizational learning as an…

The relationship of leaders’ humor and employees’ work engagement mediated by positive emotions: Moderating effect of leaders’ transformational leadership style

Ashita Goswami, Prakash Nair, Terry Beehr, Michael Grossenbacher

The purpose of this paper is to examine affective events theory (AET) by testing the mediating effect of employees’ positive affect at work in the relationships of leaders’ use of…

Culpable leaders, trust, emotional exhaustion, and identification during a crisis

Sarah Kovoor-Misra, Shanthi Gopalakrishnan

The purpose of this paper is to investigate followers’ judgments of the culpability of their leaders and the organization’s external stakeholders in causing a crisis. The authors…

Enhancing work engagement: The roles of psychological capital, authentic leadership, and work empowerment

Baek-Kyoo Joo, Doo Hun Lim, Sewon Kim

The purpose of this paper is to examine the influences of psychological capital (PsyCap) on work engagement. It also investigated the role of work empowerment as a mediator and…

The CEO-Chair relationship from a relational leadership perspective

Satu Koskinen, Lämsä Anna-Maija

The purpose of this paper is to conceptualise how the chief executive officer (CEO) and chairperson of the board (Chair) construct their relationship through their leadership…

Multilevel structural equation modeling analysis of the servant leadership construct and its relation to job satisfaction

Zhonghua Zhang, John Chi-Kin Lee, Ping Ho Wong

The purpose of this paper is to address the statistical issues associated with the hierarchically structured data in previous studies that focused on servant leadership. To…

Stimulating learning by empowering leadership: Can we achieve cross-level creativity simultaneously?

Mingze Li, Pengcheng Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to answer the theoretical and practical calls for an examination of the multi-level effects of empowering leadership on creativity. In addition, it…

Abusive supervision and employee creativity in China: Departmental identification as mediator and face as moderator

Jibao Gu, Jun Song, Jianlin Wu

The purpose of this paper is to examine how abusive supervision affects employee creativity, incorporating departmental identification as a mediator and face as a moderator based…

The ideal and the counter-ideal follower – advancing implicit followership theories

Nina M. Junker, Sebastian Stegmann, Stephan Braun, Rolf Van Dick

Research on implicit followership theories – that is, individually held assumptions about how followers are and how they should be – is still in its infancy. The few existing…

Examining the relationship between charismatic leadership and the lower-order factors of LMX: A follower based perspective of the moderating effect of communication frequency

Trent Salvaggio, Thomas W. Kent

The purpose of this paper is to test the effects of a followers’ perception of charisma to the followers’ perceived quality of each of the four sub-dimensions of LMX quality, and…

The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Managing Your Business and Your Life

Smit Suman