Leadership & Organization Development Journal: Volume 42 Issue 7

The impact of a proactive personality on innovative work behavior: the role of work engagement and transformational leadership

Namra Mubarak, Jabran Khan, Robina Yasmin, Atasya Osmadi

Through the lens of social exchange theory, this study aims to assess the relationship between proactive personality and innovative work behavior by incorporating the mediating…

Purpose-driven leadership and organizational success: a case of higher educational institutions

Paul C. Hong, Joseph Chacko Chennattuserry, Xiyue Deng, Margaret M. Hopkins

This paper aims to examine the relationships between organizational purpose, leadership practices and sustainable outcomes for universities in emerging economies. We propose that…

Leadership-promoted diversity climate and group identification

Jana Žnidaršič, Sabina Bogilović, Matej Černe, Roopak Kumar Gupta

Besides diversity's positive effects, groups of “we” against “them” may form in accordance with social categorization theory, showing diversity's negative consequences. The…

The antecedents and outcomes of transformational leadership: leader's self-transcendent value, follower's environmental commitment and behavior

Shujie Zhang, Wei Sun, Haochen Ji, Junyun Jia

The primary purpose of this paper is to identify the antecedent (i.e. leader's self-transcendent value) and outcomes (i.e. follower's environmental commitment and behavior) of…

Employee state paranoia: linking abusive supervision with employee voice behavior

Hira Rani, Syed Mir Muhammad Shah, Waheed Ali Umrani, Jawad Syed, Gul Afshan

Utilizing affective event theory (AET), this paper aims to understand the affective reasoning behind choosing to speak up for or against abusive supervision. For this purpose, the…

The impact of servant leadership and perceived organisational and supervisor support on job burnout and work–life balance in the era of teleworking and COVID-19

Vicky Dimitra Ioanna Lamprinou, Konstantinos Tasoulis, Foteini Kravariti

Drawing on organisational support theory, this paper aims to investigate the relationships between servant leadership and (1) job burnout and (2) work–life balance, as mediated by…

Is turnover contagious? The impact of transformational leadership and collective turnover on employee turnover decisions

Jinuk Oh, Nita Chhinzer

This study addresses three research questions related to employee turnover: (1) does transformational leadership act as a pull-to-stay factor for employees? (2) How well does…

When to challenge employees' comfort zones? The interplay between culture fit, innovation culture and supervisors' intellectual stimulation

Paul Constantin Endrejat

This study, first, examines whether a low culture person–organization (P-O) fit reduces job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Second, the author…

Sustaining work outcomes through human capital sustainability leadership: knowledge sharing behaviour as an underlining mechanism

Syed Haider Khalil, Syed Mohsin Ali Shah, Syed Majid Khalil

The current study aimed to investigate how perceived human capital sustainability leadership (HCSL) affects work outcomes (i.e. work engagement and job satisfaction), specifically…

Servant leadership and organizational deviant behaviour: interpreting some contradictory results from public sector of Pakistan

Amjad Iqbal, Iftikhar Ahmad, Khawaja Fawad Latif

This study aims at ascertaining the relationship between servant leadership and employees’ organizational deviant behaviour in public sector organizations of Pakistan. Drawing on…