This study explores the links between CEO leadership behaviors firm performance and employees' attitudes in a sample drawn from 125 firms in China....

This diary study investigated whether and how supervisors' leadership style influences followers' daily work engagement....

Based on the existing social influence literature we predict that a supervisor's affective commitment to the organization may influence his or her subordinates' level of affective commitment which subsequently affects their task performance and extra-role behavior....

Previous research on upper echelon (i.e. top-level) executives has focused on how character flaws or lapses in ethical judgment lead to detrimental outcomes. Research is lacking that specifically examines whether character strengths that are reflected in the behaviors of top-level executives are related to positive outcomes....

Individualized leadership (IL) was studied in 11 independent formally assigned senior-level relationships....

Perhaps nowhere are leaders more pivotal than in the extreme contexts of responding to the aftermath of natural disasters or orchestrating post-war stability support transition and reconstruction efforts....

Regardless of the quality of the decisions, teams that fail to effectively implement their decisions have accomplished nothing. Teams that derive decisions through a conflictual process may find that their members lack commitment to their decision due to the nature of the conflict the team experienced....

Empirical work on the concept of abusive supervision typically employs measurements of subordinates' perceptions of abuse as the primary dependent variable....

Leader categorization theory suggests that subordinates implicitly compare their leaders with a cognitively represented ideal image of a leader i.e. an ideal leader prototype. The better the match, the more favorable subordinates' attitudes toward their leaders will be....

This field experimental study examined the role that positive leadership plays in producing effective leader and follower outcomes. Specifically a sample of engineers (N=106) from a very large aerospace firm were randomly assigned to four experimental conditions....