Despite significant scholarly attention and practical importance regarding who emerges as
informal and formal leaders in organizations, an integrative framework of the leadership …

In this article, we provide a wide-ranging review of recent research on leader individual
differences. The review focuses specifically on the explosion of such research in the last …

Setting Directions, Building Relationships and Develo** People, Redesigning the
Organization to Support Desired Practices, and Improving the Instructional Program. While …

Leaders must scan the internal and external environment, chart strategic and task
objectives, and provide performance feedback. These instrumental leadership (IL) functions …

What roles do CEOs play in firm performance? To address this question, the management
field has accumulated a substantial amount of research over the past 3 decades built on …

We examine how two seemingly contradictory yet potentially complementary CEO traits—
humility and narcissism—interact to affect firm innovation. We adopt a paradox perspective …

Recent studies of organizational behavior have witnessed a growing interest in unethical
leadership, leading to the development of abusive supervision research. Given the …

Both scholars and the popular press have expressed concern regarding the potential
prevalence of individuals with psychopathic tendencies in corporate leadership positions …

Omitted variables create endogeneity and thus bias the estimation of the causal effect of
measured variables on outcomes. Such measured variables are ubiquitous and include …

In this introductory editorial, we provide a brief overview of the history of individual difference
research in leadership. We explain the major challenges that trait research faced, and why it …