Leadership & Organization Development Journal: Volume 42 Issue 3

Exige-stential leadership: exploring the limits of leadership in a crisis

David William Stoten

The purpose of this paper is to explore how leadership can better respond to a crisis. It aims to integrate ideas from existentialism into a discussion of how leadership could…

The ambidextrous and differential effects of directive versus empowering leadership: a study from project context

Junwei Zheng, Xueqin Gou, Guangdong Wu, Xianbo Zhao, Hongyang Li, Bingsheng Liu

This study investigated the differential effects of empowering leadership and directive leadership in projects. Moreover, how the complex interplay between empowering and…

The effects of leader–subordinate power distance orientation congruence on employees' taking charge behaviors in China: a moderated mediation model

Yan Bao, Ping Han, Shudi Liao, Jianqiao Liao

Based on the social exchange theory, this study explores the mechanism of leader–subordinate power distance orientation (PDO) congruence with employees' taking charge behavior…

Frugal-based innovation model for sustainable development: technological and market turbulence

Qaisar Iqbal, Noor Hazlina Ahmad, Zeyun Li

This study draws on the upper echelon perspective and effectuation theory to put insights on the relationship between sustainable leadership and sustainable performance.

“Being true to oneself”: the interplay of responsible leadership and authenticity on multi-level outcomes

Muzhar Javed, Muhammad Waheed Akhtar, Khalid Hussain, Muhammad Junaid, Fauzia Syed

Drawing on stakeholder theory, this study examines the relationship between responsible leadership and its macro-, meso- and micro-level outcomes. Further, this study investigates…

Entrepreneurial leadership: the key to develop creativity in organizations

Muhammad Shahid Mehmood, Zhang Jian, Umair Akram, Adeel Tariq

Entrepreneurial leadership has been developed from the existing leadership and entrepreneurship literature as a new leadership theory to meet the dynamic changes in the 21st…

Employee engagement constructs: “CARE” model of engagement – need to look beyond the obvious

Swaminathan Mani, Mridula Mishra

The purpose of this article is to identify new variables that form the core building blocks of employee engagement model which can be leveraged by human resources' (HR…

When does abusive supervision mitigate work effort? Moderating roles of cognitive reappraisal and rumination

Alisher Tohirovich Dedahanov, Siyuan Miao, Aleksey Aleksandrovich Semyonov

The purpose of this study is to examine the boundary condition roles of cognitive reappraisal and rumination in the link between abusive supervision and work effort.

An empirical study of the relationship between inclusive leadership and business model innovation

Yangchun Fang, Xinxing Dai, Xudong Zhang

To better understand factors that lead to business model innovation (BMI) in organizations, this study argues that inclusive leadership is the primary source that motivates…

Seizing the benefits of age diversity: could empowering leadership be the answer?

Cara-Lynn Scheuer, Catherine Loughlin

Acknowledging that only examining the main effects of diversity may be limiting, the authors explore integrating van Knippenberg et al.'s (2004) categorization–elaboration model…