Leadership & Organization Development Journal: Volume 41 Issue 5

The elephant in the room: exploring the motivational antecedents of servant leadership

Joshua Paas, Rob F. Poell, Saša Batistič

This paper aims to examine how psychological need satisfaction (PNS) relates to the display of servant leadership (SL) behavior through the motivation to serve (MTS) and…

The effect of service workers' proactive personality on their psychological withdrawal behaviors: a moderating effect of servant leadership

Chanhoo Song, Chul Ho Lee

A worker with a proactive personality actively pursues changes in the environment instead of maintaining the status quo, leading to an expected result of a negative relationship…

Grey shade of work environment triad – effect of supervisor ostracism and perceived organizational obstruction on employees' behaviour: a moderated-mediation model

Muhammad Waheed Akhtar, Fauzia Syed, Muzhar Javed, Mudassir Husnain

This study, based on the moderated-mediation model, investigates the indirect effect of facades of conformity in the relationship between supervisor ostracism and unethical work…

Leader self-enhancement values: curvilinear and congruence effects

Scott Dust, Joseph Rode, Peng Wang

Assumptions regarding the effect of leader self-enhancement values on leader-follower relationships are oversimplified. To advance this conversation, we test non-linear and…

Utility analysis of character assessment in employee placement

Gerard Seijts, Jose A. Espinoza, Julie Carswell

There has been a surge of interest in leader character and a push to bring character into mainstream management theory and practice. Research has shown that CEOs and board members…