Leadership & Organization Development Journal: Volume 43 Issue 4

Is supervisor-subordinate Guanxi always good for subordinate commitment toward organizations? An inverted U-shaped perspective

Jie Zhong, Li Zhang, Guang Xu

The purpose of this research is to explore the relationship between supervisor-subordinate Guanxi (SSG) and employee affective commitment. Integrating social exchange theory (SET…

How and when does centralization affect the likelihood of passive leadership?

Shaker Bani-Melhem, Rawan Abukhait, Islam Faisal Bourini

This study empirically investigates the impact of organizational structure (specifically centralization) on the occurrence of the passive leadership. The authors also examine the…

Leadership and risk: a review of the literature

Willem Fourie

Even though every decision a leader makes carries an element of risk, no review on the topic of leadership and risk has appeared in highly-ranked management journals in the past…

Leader–follower psychological capital congruence and work outcomes: the mediating role of organizational embeddedness

Yanfei Wang, Caiping Wu, Xiaoxia Tian, Yu Zhu

Based on the micro role transition theory (MRTT), the present study aims to explore how leader–follower congruence in psychological capital (PsyCap) affects followers' task…

How leader bottom-line mentality relates to employee innovation: a cross-layer model mediated by psychological contract breach

Longjun Liu, Qing Fan, Ruhong Liu, Jing Long

This study aims to examine how and when leader bottom-line mentality (BLM) affects employee innovation (EI) in the context of Chinese organisations in which psychological contract…

Towards leadership effectiveness: the role of leadership individual competencies and constraints. Introduction of the Bounded Leadership Model

Andrzej Krzysztof Kozminski, Anna Katarzyna Baczyńska, Ilona Skoczeń, Pawel Korzynski

The main purpose of this paper is to test the relationship between leadership competencies and effectiveness, with constraints as a mediating variable, and to introduce the main…

The moderating influence of error timing on follower perceptions of leader error

Matthew P. Crayne, Samuel T. Hunter

This study aims to examine how the characteristics of leader errors impact perceptions and reactions of followers, particularly their willingness to follow a leader in the future…

The impact of spiritual leadership on workplace spirituality in the light the COVID-19 pandemic in the governmental health sector

Sanaa Mostafa Mohammed, Reda Ebrahim Elashram

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the spiritual leadership (SL) of the leader is perceived by workers in the public health sector in the Assiut region of Egypt. In other…

The mechanism of the influence of coaching leadership behavior on subordinate’s sense of gain at work

Jing Wang, Yinhua Gu, Yu Luo, Yalin Huang, Liping Liao

This paper aims to explore the mechanism of influence on the subordinate's sense of gain at work (SGW) in terms of the coaching leadership behavior (CL), supervisor-subordinate…

Followership: a review of current and emerging research

Tumeka Matshoba-Ramuedzisi, Derick de Jongh, Willem Fourie

Over time, the role of followers within leadership discourse has gained greater status, leading to followers being acknowledged as significant actors in the leadership process…