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- Title
The Differential Effects of Transformational Leadership on Multiple Identifications at Work: A Meta-analytic Model.
- Authors
Horstmeier, Christiane A. L.; Boer, Diana; Homan, Astrid C.; Voelpel, Sven C.
- Abstract
Employees' identifications are a valuable asset for modern organizations, and identification research has stressed the necessity to distinguish identifications according to their focus (i.e. organizational, team, or leader identification). Interestingly, transformational leadership (TFL) has been proposed to unfold its effects by transforming followers' identifications and could thus be a powerful way to actively manage identification. However, it remains unclear whether TFL affects identifications with different foci similarly or whether it predominantly influences a specific focus. To resolve this puzzle, the authors conducted a meta-analysis ( k = 73; N = 20,543) and found that TFL (and each TFL sub-dimension) is more strongly associated with leader identification than with organizational identification or team identification. By presenting a comprehensive model of TFL's effects on identifications, we show that leader identification mediates the relationships between TFL and collective identifications (i.e. organizational identification or team identification), illustrating that relational identification plays a crucial role in subsequently shaping collective identifications. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
- Subjects
TRANSFORMATIONAL leadership; IDENTIFICATION; RESEARCH teams; LABOR market research; META-analysis
- Publication
British Journal of Management, 2017, Vol 28, Issue 2, p280
- ISSN
1045-3172
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-8551.12160