When follower believe in co-production leadership: why do personal characteristics matters?

Crisis Leadership and Why It Matters

60 December January 2011 threatening H1N1 pandemic. Add to this list the run-of-the-mill business crisis such as a product recall (e.g., Toyota), labor strikes, and class action lawsuits (e.g., Wal-Mart), as well as new crises sparked by the proliferation of social media and you may begin to wonder whether crises, generally defined as rare and extreme high-impact events, have become the new nor...

Don't mention it: Why people don't share job information, when they do, and why it matters

When the Romance is Over: Follower Perspectives of Aversive Leadership

While leadership is indisputably one of the most pervasive topics in our society, the vast majority of existing research has focused on leadership as a positive force. Taking a follower-centric approach to the study of leadership, we integrate research on the Romance of Leadership and the dark side of leadership by examining followers’ perceptions of aversive leadership in the context of public...

Mindsets That Promote Resilience: When Students Believe That Personal Characteristics Can Be Developed

Because challenges are ubiquitous, resilience is essential for success in school and in life. In this article we review research demonstrating the impact of students’ mindsets on their resilience in the face of academic and social challenges. We show that students who believe (or are taught) that intellectual abilities are qualities that can be developed (as opposed to qualities that are fixed)...

Why Believe That There Is a God?

This article presents an argument for the existence of God, showing that the evident phenomena are best explained by supposing that a God causes them. The argument is based on the inductive force of four very evident general phenomena: that there is a physical Universe; that it is governed by very simple natural laws; that those laws are such as to lead to the existence of human bodies; and tha...