Using an evolutionary psychology framework we propose that leadership and followership are evolved traits to solve recurrent group coordination problems.We argue that adaptive problems such as those concerning intergroup conflict ...

Collaborative or shared leadership has frequently been advocated as an alternative to vertical or top-down leadership. Building on the conceptual and theoretical aspects of collaborative leadership developed in previous research this study examined the specific communication behaviors and processes used to create collaborative leadership....

Transformational leadership (TFL) climate describes the degree to which leaders throughout an organization engage in TFL behaviors.In this study we investigate performance linkages mechanisms and boundary conditions of TFL climate at the organizational level of analysis....

Using leadership theory we examined whether transformational leadership mediates the link between the emotional intelligence of team leaders and three outcomes as perceived by followers: leader effectiveness team effectiveness and service climate....

In seeking to understand the factors contributing to work group creativity in Chinese...

The purpose of our research is to examine the relationship between subordinate ratings of a target-leader's empathic emotion and boss ratings of performance of that target-leader. Furthermore using hierarchical linearmodeling we assess whether the cultural background of the target-leader moderates this relationship....

Character is an indispensable component of leadership and its development and thus warrants future research focus....

The study of character is a legitimate and essential topic for the analysis of leadership in organizations. We undertake three key objectives in this article to stimulate meaningful dialogue. First a brief historical overview of the extant body of literature on character is provided....

Leader ethical decision-making has received a great deal of attention in the academic literature....

We propose a theoretical model to examine how authentic transformational leadership influences follower individual and group ethical decision making. We investigate how follower moral identity and moral emotions mediate the effect of authentic transformational leadership on follower authentic moral action....