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- Title
Opposites Attract: Leadership Endorsement as a Function of Interaction Between a Leader and a Foil.
- Authors
Garner, JohnyT.; Poole, Marshall Scott
- Abstract
This study focused on situations in which a leader gains a group's endorsement as leader in response to a “foil,” a central person in the group who is perceived to work against group goals. A field study of 3 Quality Improvement Teams revealed how endorsement of leadership occurred via a dialectical process in which the leader's interaction with the foil highlighted certain positive characteristics of the leader and certain counterproductive characteristics of the foil. Positive actions without the foil might have added to the leader's credit, but the same actions taken in the context of foiling the foil had added valence.
- Subjects
LEADERSHIP; GROUP formation; SOCIAL cohesion; TEAMS; DIALECTIC; NEGATIVITY (Philosophy)
- Publication
Western Journal of Communication, 2009, Vol 73, Issue 3, p227
- ISSN
1057-0314
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570310903082057