Leadership & Organization Development Journal: Volume 38 Issue 1

The influence of servant leadership, trust in leader and thriving on employee creativity

Neeraj Kumar Jaiswal, Rajib Lochan Dhar

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how servant leadership, trust in leader and thriving drive employee creativity.

Contrasting the nature and effects of environmentally specific and general transformational leadership

Jennifer L. Robertson, Julian Barling

The purpose of this paper is to report findings from two studies that compare the nature (construct validity) and relative effects (incremental predictive validity) of…

Fulfilling employees’ psychological contracts: organizational socialization’s role

Jason D. DeBode, Kevin W. Mossholder, Alan G. Walker

The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating role of psychological contract fulfillment in the relationship between socialization tactics and attachment-related outcomes…

Network ties and transactive memory systems: leadership as an enabler

Dainelis Cabeza Pulles, Francisco Javier LLorens Montes, Leopoldo Gutierrez-Gutierrrez

The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between network ties (NT) and transactive memory systems (TMS), observed through three dimensions – specialization (TMSS)…

Leadership styles and employees’ voluntary work behaviors in the Ghanaian banking sector

Benjamin Mekpor, Kwasi Dartey-Baah

The purpose of this paper is to determine the extent to which leadership styles predict the voluntary work behaviors of employees.

From deep-level similarity to taking charge: The moderating role of face consciousness and managerial competency of inclusion

Xingshan Zheng, Ismael Diaz, Xiaotao Zheng, Ningyu Tang

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between supervisor-subordinate deep-level similarity and employee taking charge behavior. Face consciousness (FC) and…

Leaders’ managerial assumptions and transformational leadership: the moderating role of gender

Faruk Şahin, Sait Gürbüz, Harun Şeşen

Although McGregor’s Theory X and Y holds significant attention in literature, research on the managerial assumptions and leadership is very scarce. The purpose of this paper is to…

Measuring leader behaviour: evidence for a “big five” model of leadership

Peter H. Langford, Cameron B. Dougall, Louise P. Parkes

The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence for a “leadership big five”, a model of leadership behaviour integrating existing theories of leadership and conceptually aligned…