Although a tremendous amount of research in the last decade has begun to disentangle interaction factors and performance outcomes associated with virtual teams, significant gaps still exist in our understanding, particularly in terms of virtual team leadership. Shared leadership may be particularly important to virtual teams, where team members’ separation from the leader and from one another m...

Ethical leadership involves the execution of a behavioral pattern in which a man or woman attempts to lead from a virtuous set of values and beliefs. Ethical leadership investigates relationships between ethical leaders and follower outcomes with more research needed on organizational identity and outcomes. This research provides a socio-rhetorical analysis of Old Testament texture to investiga...

Leadership has mostly been considered as an unidirectional process centered on leaders influencing their followers. However, recent theoretical developments indicate that followers may also have impact formal leader. In this pre-registered study, we investigate the interplay between shared leadership and team (i.e., empowering leadership). We predict interpret team’s investment to reach for com...

an issue of importance to many national and provincial/territorial nursing organizations and, at the same time, not a central priority for anyone. Opportunities have undoubtedly been lost because of the lack of concerted or coordinated effort to advance the importance of nursing research in addressing quality of care, patient safety, health promotion and a myriad of other topics that affect the...

Twitter (and other micro blogging services) combine the flexibility and immediacy of bilateral telephone SMS with the multilateral networking capacities of the Web 2.0. In contrast to Blogs, discussion fora and Social Network Sites, Twitter allows online communication characterized by asymmetric leadership-follower relationships, remoteness of sender identity, metacommunicative signaling functi...

According to the social identity Theory, leadership group prototypicality have an important effect in employee’s group identity, work attitude and employee well-being. In this article, we explore the mechanism between leadership group prototypicality and employee well-being to understand how leadership group prototypicality works. We had a sample of 336 employees to test our hypothesis in commu...

We propose that a leadership identity is coconstructed in organizations when individuals claim and grant leader and follower identities in their social interactions. Through this claiming-granting process, individuals internalize an identity as leader or follower, and those identities become relationally recognized through reciprocal role adoption and collectively endorsed within the organizati...