In this studyweexamined themoderating influences of gender and agewith respect to testing the heritability of leadership emergence....

Advances in cognitive neuroscience and other approaches to understanding human behavior from a biological standpoint are only now beginning to filter into leadership research....

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....

This essay argues that the understanding of leadership is not independent of the power...

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....

Theoretical views of the role of wisdom in leadership have varied over time. While early leaders such as Christ and Confucius were perceived as wise and as great leaders effectiveness and efficiency in promoting organizational performance and profits has become the focus of scholarly discussions of leadership in recent times....