Leadership & Organization Development Journal: Volume 45 Issue 7

Knowledge-oriented leadership and learning in academic research teams

Daniel Dorta-Afonso, José Luis Ballesteros-Rodríguez, Nieves L. Díaz-Díaz, Petra De Saá-Pérez

This paper analyzes knowledge-oriented leadership (KOL) and its impact on the learning achieved by the members of academic research teams. We study the influence of KOL on…

How transformational leadership shapes employee task performance? A sequential mediation model

Guadalupe Vila-Vázquez, Carmen Castro-Casal, Romina García-Chas, Dolores Álvarez-Pérez

The purpose of this study was to analyze, through a sequential model, the underlying mechanisms connecting transformational leadership with employee task performance…

Unveiling the path to employee performance excellence: visionary leadership behavior, vision commitment and organization resource support

De-Long Yang, Ning Yang

Drawing on goal setting theory (GST), this study explores the relationship between visionary leadership behavior (VLB) and employee performance, along with the mediating role of…

CEO reflections on leadership lessons from the global pandemic: back to basics during crisis

Clinton O. Longenecker, Jenell Wittmer

The current study qualitatively examined the challenges and lessons learned from Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The current study draws upon…

The effects of ethical leadership, help seeking and happiness on innovation: an examination in China

Lei Xie, Guangping Li, Xinyi Bian

The study specifically focused on ethical leadership and help seeking during innovation and tested the moderating effect of happiness on the path from help seeking to innovation.

How positive leadership leads to employees’ interpersonal citizenship behavior: a self-consistency perspective

Hsien-Ta Li

Although researchers have carried out considerable work on organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), the questions of whether and how adopting a positive leadership style leads…

Employee perceptions of responses to toxic leadership in the modern workplace: a Q methodological study

Emily Bublitz-Berg, Carrie Anne Platt, Brent Hill

The purpose of this study is to explain why people respond to toxic leadership in different ways. The toxic triangle was applied as a lens and extended followership by…

Authentic leadership, proactive goal regulation and help-seeking behavior: a multilevel moderated mediation

Zhining Wang, Xuan Zhou, Shaohan Cai

Based on self-regulation theory, this study aims to investigate the relationship between authentic leadership and help-seeking behavior, as well as the mediating effect of…

Transformational leadership and work engagement in remote work settings: the moderating role of the supervisor’s digital communication skills

Gabriele Boccoli, Luca Gastaldi, Mariano Corso

This study explores the impact of transformational leadership on work engagement within remote work settings. More specifically, we investigate whether supervisor’s perceived…

Abusive, arrogant and exploitative? Linking despotic leadership and adaptive performance: the role of Islamic work ethics

Muhammad Qamar Zia, Muhammad Sufyan Ramish, Iram Mushtaq, Syeda Tayyaba Fasih, Muhammad Naveed

This study aims to theoretically discuss and empirically test the mediating mechanism of psychological distress and the moderating effects of Islamic work ethics (IWE) in the…