How social-living animals make collective decisions is currently the subject of intense scientific interest, with increasing focus on the role of individual variation within the group. Previously, we demonstrated that during paired flight in homing pigeons, a fully transitive leadership hierarchy emerges as birds are forced to choose between their own and their partner's habitual routes. This s...

The literatures on both authentic leadership and behavioral integrity have argued that leader integrity drives follower performance. Yet, despite overlap in conceptualization and mechanisms, no research has investigated how authentic leadership and behavioral integrity relate to one another in driving follower performance. In this study, we propose and test the notion that authentic leadership ...

Although research on implicit leadership theories (ILTs) has concentrated on determining which attributes define a leadership prototype, little attention has been paid to testing the relative importance of each of these attributes for individuals' leadership perceptions. Building on socio-cognitive theories of impression processes, we experimentally explore the formation of leadership perceptio...

background: researches indicated that spirituality in workplace and ethical leadership have important role in creating and developing of psychological capital. for this reason, main purpose of this research was to study simple and multiple relationships between spirituality in workplace and ethical leadership with psychological capital. methods: research method of this study is a descriptive-co...

with entrance spirituality and god to management and organization field, as 21st century challenge, organization’s managers and leaders especially educational institutions must confront with new phenomena. spiritual leader’s role to incite and encourage human resource with use of spiritual vision and establishment of cultural context based on human values, to foster empowered, high productivity...

This study was conducted in 2016 aimed to investigate the relationship between empowering leadership, uncertainty avoidance, trust, and employee creativity with regard to interaction effects and mediating mechanism. The population consists of 205 employees from the Nomadic affairs of Fars Province. In accordance with the Cochran formula, the sample size of 134 was calculated that were participa...

Leadership is a key challenge of virtual teams. A particular leadership style, namely inspirational leadership, which is a sub-category of transformational leadership, has been found to be especially suited for the study of highly diverse teams. Virtual team leaders increasingly have to manage global virtual teams that contain members from different cultural backgrounds and value orientations. ...

Nurses are increasingly being called upon to lead changes within health care. How do nurses and, in particular, school nurses become leaders? School nurses lead daily in their work but often do not recognize themselves as leaders. The "Five C's of Leadership"-character, commitment, connectedness, compassion, and confidence-identified by Kowalski and Yoder-Wise are foundational to the developmen...

This paper investigates the relationship between transformational leadership and voice behavior under Chinese cultural background. It also examines the mediating effects of organizational identification in the relationship between transformational leadership and voice behavior. We use multiple linear regression analyses to validate our hypotheses. The results of the empirical study showed that:...