Leadership & Organization Development Journal: Volume 39 Issue 3

Can leader “humility” spark employee “proactivity”? The mediating role of psychological empowerment

Yanhong Chen, Baowei Liu, Li Zhang, Shanshan Qian

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of humble leadership on employee proactive behavior. The authors propose that such effect is mediated by psychological…

Chinese immigrants’ occupational well-being in Finland: the role of paternalistic leadership

Dan Nie, Anna-Maija Lämsä

The purpose of this paper is to enhance the understanding of paternalistic leadership behaviour in the Finnish organisational context by investigating its relationship with…

Roles of leadership styles and relationship-based employee governance in open service innovation: Evidence from Malaysian service sector

Farooq Ahmed, M. Muzamil Naqshbandi, Sharan Kaur, Boon Kwee Ng

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship of leadership styles (paternalistic, authentic and democratic) with relationship-based employee governance and open…

How humble leadership fosters employee innovation behavior: A two-way perspective on the leader-employee interaction

Fei Zhou, Yenchun Jim Wu

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between humble leadership and employee innovation behavior and to investigate the mediating effects of core…

Is distributed leadership a driving factor of innovation ambidexterity? An empirical study with mediating and moderating effects

Lihua Fu, Zhiying Liu, Suqin Liao

The purpose of this paper is to examine how and when distributed leadership (DL) enhances innovation ambidexterity by considering knowledge sharing as a mediator and element of…

Why and when leadership training predicts effectiveness: The role of leader identity and leadership experience

Darja Kragt, Hannes Guenter

The purpose of this paper is to build and test an integrative model of leader identity as an important mechanism explaining why reactions to leadership training associate with…

Leader-member exchange and employee creativity: Knowledge sharing: the moderated mediating role of psychological contract

Shu-Hsien Liao, Chih-Chiang Chen

The purpose of this paper is to test the mediating role of LMX in the relationship between knowledge sharing and employee creativity and the extent to which this mediating role is…

The “left side” of authentic leadership: contributions of climate and psychological capital

Karl Petersen, Carolyn M. Youssef-Morgan

The purpose of this paper is to examine the individual and contextual antecedents of authentic leadership (AL) proposed in the authentic leadership development (ALD) theory.