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- Title
Leadership and Affect: Moving the Hearts and Minds of Followers.
- Authors
VAN KNIPPENBERG, DAAN; VAN KLEEF, GERBEN A.
- Abstract
We provide an integrative review of the empirical literature on leadership and affect (emotion, mood, and affective dispositions), which is first and foremost a literature on leader displays of affect. We conclude that the influence of leader affective displays can be understood through the mediation paths of emotional contagion and cognitive interpretation of affect in combination with the firstand second-stage moderators of these paths. We also conclude that the common yet overly simplistic notion that leader displays of positive affect are more effective than leader displays of negative affect can in important part be attributed to an overreliance on subjective ratings as indicators of leadership effectiveness, whereas behavioral indicators of leadership effectiveness suggest a more contingent view of the effectiveness of positive and negative affective displays. We propose that to bolster and further develop these conclusions, we need (a) more research focusing on moderation in dual-path mediation; (b) development of theory about cognitive interpretations following leader affective displays; and (c) more sophisticated models of the difference amongst different affective states to better capture the complexity of their effects. We also outline how evidence regarding the role of follower affect in response to leadership more generally points to the potential for integration of affective and non-affective models of leadership.
- Subjects
LEADERSHIP; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; LEADERSHIP training; FOLLOWERSHIP; STRUCTURAL frames
- Publication
Academy of Management Annals, 2016, Vol 10, Issue 1, p799
- ISSN
1941-6067
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5465/19416520.2016.1160515