Leadership & Organization Development Journal: Volume 39 Issue 5

Situational leadership theory: a test from a leader-follower congruence approach

Geir Thompson, Lars Glasø

Empirical tests of Hersey and Blanchard’s situational leadership theory (SLT) have demonstrated that the assessment of follower competence and commitment, critical contextual…

Emotional intelligence, management of subordinate’s emotions, and leadership effectiveness

Peter Edelman, Daan van Knippenberg

The purpose of this paper is to address two of the major questions in the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and leadership effectiveness: does EI conceptualized and…

Self-determined leader motivation and follower perceptions of leadership

Stephanie Gilbert, E. Kevin Kelloway

A critical assumption of the organizational leadership literature is that leaders want to engage in effective leadership behaviors (Gilbert and Kelloway, 2014). However, leaders…

Leadership, job crafting, and employee health and performance

Philipp Wolfgang Lichtenthaler, Andrea Fischbach

The purpose of this paper is to integrate the effects of top-down leadership and employees’ bottom-up job crafting behaviors on employee health and performance. The authors…

Unselfish leaders? Understanding the role of altruistic leadership and organizational learning on happiness at work (HAW)

Andres Salas-Vallina, Joaquin Alegre

The purpose of this paper is to examine to what extent altruistic leadership (AL) contribute to happiness at work (HAW). In addition, the authors analyze the mediating role of…

Deconstructing the relationship between mindfulness and leader effectiveness

Matthew Lippincott

Recent research implies that leader performance may be enhanced by mindfulness. The purpose of this paper is to present findings that help clarify the process of behavioral…

Ethical leadership, frustration, and humor: a moderated-mediation model

Matthew Valle, Micki Kacmar, Martha Andrews

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of ethical leadership on surface acting, positive mood and affective commitment via the mediating effect of employee…

Emotional intelligence and authentic leadership: a meta-analysis

Chao Miao, Ronald H. Humphrey, Shanshan Qian

Authentic leadership is a popular leadership construct that stimulates considerable scholarly interest and has received substantial attention from practitioners. Among different…