Are the effects of servant leadership only spurious? The state of research on the causal effects of servant leadership, recommendations, and an illustrative experiment

AF Schowalter, J Volmer - The Leadership Quarterly, 2023 - Elsevier
Causality is essential in informing science and policy. In the present study, we investigate
the current state of research regarding causality in the field of servant (and authentic) …

Well-being of formal leaders: A critical and interdisciplinary review of predictors sha** leader well-being

B Oc, K Chintakananda - The Leadership Quarterly, 2024 - Elsevier
Holding a formal leadership role is often idealized, motivating individuals to pursue such
positions for independence and success. However, recent reports highlight significant …

Common methodological mistakes

JN Wulff, GB Sajons, G Pogrebna, S Lonati… - The Leadership …, 2023 - Elsevier
For scientific discoveries to be valid—whether in theory or empirically—a phenomenon must
be accurately described: The scientist must use appropriate counterfactuals and eliminate …

Charisma is a costly signal

V Akstinaite, UT Jensen, M Vlachos, A Erne… - The Leadership …, 2024 - Elsevier
A key assumption in modern conceptualizations of charisma is that it is a costly signal. It thus
should be easier for intelligent individuals to produce this signal: it requires one to be …

Leadership science beyond questionnaires

T Fischer, DC Hambrick, GB Sajons… - The Leadership …, 2023 - Elsevier
Our field has lost its way. Leadership is what people do in order to influence others so that
the others can and will contribute to the objectives of the collective. And yet, when looking at …

[HTML][HTML] Leadership sha** social comparison to improve performance: A field experiment

E Waltré, B Dietz, D van Knippenberg - The Leadership Quarterly, 2023 - Elsevier
We analyze a fundamental, but so far unaddressed, aspect of leadership and social
comparison: how leadership can influence the employee social comparison processes …

Eight puzzles of leadership science

GC Banks - The Leadership Quarterly, 2023 - Elsevier
In the early 1900s, David Hilbert introduced a set of 23 mathematical problems. These
problems caught the imagination of mathematicians around the world for the coming century …

Constructive and destructive leadership in job demands-resources theory: A meta-analytic test of the motivational and health-impairment pathways

JL Pletzer, K Breevaart… - Organizational …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Integrating the leadership literature with Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) theory, we
conducted a pre-registered meta-analysis of the relations of different leadership behaviors …

Digital leadership in an ever-changing world: A bibliometric analysis of trends and challenges

L Espina-Romero, JG Noroño Sánchez… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Digital leadership is vital for companies in a constantly evolving technological environment,
where the adaptability of leaders is essential to face changes. To better understand this …

Advancing Organizational Science With Computational Process Theories

G Kuljanin, MT Braun, JA Grand, JD Olenick… - The Leadership …, 2024 - Elsevier
Organizational scholars commonly refer to organizations as complex systems unfolding as a
function of work processes. Consequently, the direct study of work processes necessitates …