A process model of self-regulation and leadership: How attentional resource capacity and negative emotions influence constructive and destructive leadership
A process model of self-regulation and leadership: How attentional resource capacity and negative emotions influence constructive and destructive leadership
This study proposes a process model of the antecedents of both constructive and destructive leadership. As task difficulty increases, a leader's limited attentional resource capacity may become overwhelmed by the experience of high levels of negative emotions, resulting in self-regulation impairment and destructive leadership. When task difficulty is low, or when negative emotions do not overwhelm attentional resource capacity, then self-regulation is effective, giving rise to constructive leadership. We test our model with 161 leaders in the field and find good support for our model in the prediction of transformational leadership and abusive supervision as specific examples of constructive and destructive leadership.
Citation:
The Leadership Quarterly Volume 26, Issue 3, June 2015, Pages 386–401