Direct and indirect effects of three core charismatic leadership components on performance and attitudes
Article Abstract:
On the basis of 7 charismatic and transformational leadership theories, 3 core components (vision, vision implementation through task cues, and communication style) were identified. A laboratory simulation manipulated the 3 components in a completely crossed experimental design, where 2 trained actors portrayed the leader. Participants were 282 students in upper level business classes who performed a simulated production task. The vision of high quality weakly affected performance quality but significantly affected many attitudes. Vision implementation, in the form of task cues, affected performance quality and quantity. Charismatic communication style affected only the perception of charisma. Mediation was not found; rather, an exploratory path analysis found a 2-part causal sequence, where the vision of quality and vision implementation each affected self-set goals and self-efficacy, which, in turn, affected performance. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Psychology
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-9010
Year: 1996
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
A test of the path-goal theory of leadership with need for clarity as a moderator in research and development organizations
Article Abstract:
A study of 477 professional employees from four research and development organizations revealed that need for clarity had a moderating effect on the initiating structure-satisfaction relationship fro both concurrent and 1-year-later data, whereby the higher the need for clarity among subordinates, the stronger the relationship between initiating structure and job satisfaction. In addition, need for clarity similarly moderated the initiating structure-performance relationship in the largest of the research and development organizations for both concurrent and 1-year data. Neither task clarity nor organization membership had a moderator effect for these relationships. Implications for path-goal leadership theory and the management of research and development professional employees are discussed. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Psychology
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-9010
Year: 1989
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Payment depreciation: the behavioral effects of temporally separating payments from consumption. On the perceived value of money: the reference dependence of currency numerosity effects
- Abstracts: Technological innovation in services and manufacturing: results from Italian surveys. Testing a model of technological trajectories
- Abstracts: Small interventions for large problems: reshaping urban leadership networks. Self-fulfilling prophecy and escalating commitment: fuel for the Waco fire
- Abstracts: Power, situation, and leaders' effectiveness: an organizational field study. An Estimate of Variance Due to Traits in Leadership
- Abstracts: Vividness effects: a resource-matching perspective. Affect intensity: an individual difference response to advertising appeals