LEADER ENDORSEMENT: THE ROLE OF LEADER PROTOTYPICALITY, LEADER EFFECTIVENESS AND EMPLOYEE’S ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTIFICATION

Leader self-sacrifice and leadership effectiveness: the moderating role of leader prototypicality.

Self-sacrificing behavior of the leader and the extent to which the leader is representative of the group (i.e., group prototypical) are proposed to interact to influence leadership effectiveness. The authors expected self-sacrificing leaders to be considered more effective and to be able to push subordinates to a higher performance level than non-self-sacrificing leaders, and these effects wer...

Running Head: LEADER ENDORSEMENT IN SOCIAL DILEMMAS Leader Endorsement in Social Dilemmas: Comparing the Instrumental and Relational Perspectives

This chapter examines the role of leadership in overcoming social dilemmas within groups. First, based on prior theorising and research we present two alternative perspectives on leader endorsement in social dilemmas, an instrumental and relational perspective. Next, we systematically compare these perspectives in a series of experiments investigating leadership in social dilemmas created withi...

Leader Role Inversion as a Corollary to Leader-Member Exchange

A Social Identity Analysis of Leadership Endorsement: The Effects of Leader Ingroup Prototypicality and Distributive Intergroup Fairness

This study (N = 216) measured the strength of endorsements for ingroup leaders who varied in both their relative ingroup prototypicality and distributive intergroup fairness. Leadership endorsement overall was positively related to group members’ levels of social identification and negatively related to their levels of reported self-interest. Among low identifiers, however, leaders’ distributiv...

Cooperating when "you" and "I" are treated fairly: the moderating role of leader prototypicality.

We developed a model predicting that leaders are most effective in stimulating follower cooperation when they consistently treat all group members in a fair manner and are prototypical (i.e., representative of the group's values and norms). In support of this idea, we consistently found that group members cooperated most when prototypical leaders treated themselves as well as their coworkers fa...