Leadership & Organization Development Journal: Volume 38 Issue 2

Blindsided by linearity? Curvilinear effect of leader behaviors

Inchul Cho, Ismael Diaz, Dan S. Chiaburu

The purpose of this paper is to posit and empirically demonstrate that positive and negative leader behaviors have a linear relationship with subordinate outcomes. The authors…

Ideal and Confucian implicit leadership profiles in China

Stephanie Solansky, Vipin Gupta, Jifu Wang

This paper is a regional exploratory study of implicit leadership theories in two regions of China. The purpose of this paper is to compare ideal vs Confucian leadership profiles…

Servant leadership and followership creativity: The influence of workplace spirituality and political skill

Wallace Alexander Williams, Randolph-Seng Brandon, Mario Hayek, Stephanie Pane Haden, Guclu Atinc

The purpose of this paper is to examine how servant leadership and political skill combine to impact workplace spirituality and employee creativity.

Intentions to turnover: Testing the moderated effects of organizational culture, as mediated by job satisfaction, within the Salvation Army

Courtney Cronley, Youn kyoung Kim

The purpose of this paper is to advance the knowledge base by testing the hypothesis that job satisfaction mediates the relationship between perceived organizational culture and…

The effect of leadership on work-related flow: a moderated mediation model

Junbang Lan, Chi-Sum Wong, Chunyan Jiang, Yina Mao

Some indirect evidence indicates that leadership may affect work-related flow, a core concept in positive psychology. However, the exact process of how this relationship takes…

Ambidextrous leadership, entrepreneurial orientation, and operational performance: Organizational social capital as a moderator

Trong Tuan Luu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of ambidextrous leadership in fostering entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and operational performance. The research also seeks…

Value congruence and tenure as moderators of transformational leadership effects

Denis Lajoie, Jean-Sébastien Boudrias, Vincent Rousseau, Éric Brunelle

Using the substitute for leadership framework, the purpose of this paper is to verify whether employees’ perceived value congruence with their organization can act as a moderator…

Servant leaders as underestimators: theoretical and practical implications

Milton Sousa, Dirk van Dierendonck

The purpose of this paper is to provide a new interpretation of underestimation for the particular case of servant leadership, contending the ideas that underestimation is caused…

Rethinking distributed leadership: dimensions, antecedents and team effectiveness

Yanan Feng, Bin Hao, Paul Iles, Nicola Bown

Studies of distributed leadership (DL) are increasing, but are not systematic, often taking a normative position emphasizing the superiority of DL to solo leadership and using the…

Does leadership matter in diversity management? Assessing the relative impact of diversity policy and inclusive leadership in the public sector

Myung Jin, Jaeyong Lee, MiYoung Lee

While prior research has emphasized the importance of diversity management for the betterment of future workforce, the role of managerial actors in leading the diversity…

Transformational leadership and autonomy support management behaviors: The role of specificity in predicting employees’ psychological health

Marie-Hélène Gilbert, Véronique Dagenais-Desmarais, France St-Hilaire

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between transformational leadership (TL), autonomy support management behaviors and employees’ psychological health.

Leaders behaving badly: the relationship between narcissism and unethical leadership

Carrie A. Blair, Katherine Helland, Bill Walton

Narcissism is often cited as a construct that is likely related to unethical leadership. Still, only a handful of empirical studies have examined the relationship between…