Based on the literature and expert interviews we developed a new measure the C-LEAD scale to capture the efficacy of leaders to assess information and make decisions in a public health and safety crisis....

Two experimental studies examined whether gender stereotypes about the transformational transactional and laissez-faire leadership styles constitute an advantage or an impediment for women's access to leadership positions in organizations....

This study examines how CEO empowering leadership shapes top management team (TMT) behavioral integration and potency thereby enhancing firm performance....

We sought to establish whether mean level within-team assessments of a leader's transformational behavior and the extent of perceived variability (i.e. consensus) among team members’ ratings around this mean level are separate yet related indicators of leader quality....

Transformational leadership has been widely researched and associated with followers' performance attitudes health and well-being. However less research has focused on the antecedents of transformational leadership behaviors....

We examined the influence of general mental ability, self-esteem and family socioeconomic status on leadership role occupancy and leader advancement (defined as the increase in supervisory scope via the number of employees supervised), as well as the moderating role of gender in these relationships.  ...

Although a leader's integrity seems to be essential for effective leadership no empirical studies have examined the relationship between leader behavioral integrity (the consistency between words and actions) and follower job performance....

Issues regarding workplace spirituality have received increased attention in the organizational sciences. The implications of workplace spirituality for leadership theory research and practice make this a fast growing area of new research and inquiry by scholars....

Confident leaders are seen as competent and capable by others. However excessive amounts of confidence may be detrimental to a leader's performance. The purpose of the current study was to identify indicators of overconfidence and examine the influence that overconfidence has on certain kinds of leader performance....

We advance the discussion that each leader has a moral component that can be defined as character that is distinct from values personality and other similar constructs....