Leadership & Organization Development Journal: Volume 43 Issue 1

Impact of transformational leadership and transparent communication on employee openness to change: mediating role of employee organization trust and moderated role of change-related self-efficacy

Bushra Zainab, Waqar Akbar, Faiza Siddiqui

This study investigates the impact of transformational leadership and transparent communication on employees' openness to change with the mediating role of employee organization…

Bad time to be humble! When and why leaders should not be humble

Jiang Xu, Jih-Yu Mao, Ye Zhang

Although leader humility is generally considered a positive leadership behavior, this study aims to examine when the positive influences of leader humility are likely weakened.

Exploitative leadership and organizational cynicism: the mediating role of emotional exhaustion

Mervat Elsaied

The paper aims to clarify the relationship between exploitative leadership (EL) and organizational cynicism (OC). Besides, it aims also to examine the mediating role of emotional…

Interrelations between enhanced emotional intelligence, leadership self-efficacy and task-oriented leadership behaviour–a leadership coaching study

Peter Halliwell, Rebecca Mitchell, Brendan Boyle

The purpose of this paper is to investigate interrelations between enhanced emotional intelligence, leadership self-efficacy and task-oriented leadership behaviour following…

The impact of manager recognition training on performance: a quasi-experimental field study

Charles A. Scherbaum, Loren J. Naidoo, Roy Saunderson

Employee recognition programs are ubiquitous, and recognition is a multibillion-dollar industry. Yet, very little research has tested the utility of recognition-based…

The effect of servant leadership on organisational sustainability: the parallel mediation role of creativity and psychological resilience

Fatima Batool, Jihad Mohammad, Siti Rahmah Awang

The main concern of this research is to examine the indirect effects servant leadership on organisational sustainability (OS) through creativity and psychological resilience in…

Ethical leadership, perceived leader–member ethical communication and organizational citizenship behavior: development and validation of a multilevel model

Hassan Abu Bakar, Stacey L. Connaughton

This study provides a systematic testing of ethical leadership and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) by examining the underlying mechanisms of leader motivation language…

Dual crossover mechanisms of benevolent supervision on followers' contextual performance and emotional exhaustion alleviation

Ya-Ting Chuang, Hua-Ling Chiang, An-Pan Lin, Yung-Chih Lien

Adopting conservation of resources (COR) theory as a guiding framework, this study proposes that benevolent supervision (BS) is a feasible leadership style for building a positive…

Turning visions into results: unraveling the distinctive paths of leading with vision and autonomy to goal achievement

Thomas K. Maran, Urs Baldegger, Kilian Klösel

Leading with vision while granting employees autonomy is one effective organizational response to the demands of a dynamic external environment. The former is thought to align…

Integrating relational systems theory with ethical leadership: how ethical leadership relates to employee turnover intentions

Dennis J. Marquardt, Jennifer Manegold, Lee W. Brown

As ethical leadership has advanced as a construct, the degree to which healthy relational systems explain its effect on employee outcomes has been understudied. With this…