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| Management and Organizations : Publications since January 2023List all publications in the database. :chronological alphabetical combined listing:%% Fitzsimons, Grainne @article{fds372427, Author = {Wingrove, S and Paek, JJW and Ponce de Leon and R and Fitzsimons, GM}, Title = {Tying the value of goals to social class.}, Journal = {Journal of personality and social psychology}, Volume = {125}, Number = {4}, Pages = {699-719}, Year = {2023}, Month = {October}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000346}, Abstract = {Although everyone strives toward valued goals, we suggest that not everyone will be perceived as doing so equally. In this research, we examine the tendency to use social class as a cue to understand the importance of others' goals. Six studies find evidence of a goal-value bias: Observers perceive goals across a variety of domains as more valuable to higher class than to lower class individuals (Studies 1-6). These perceptions do not appear to reflect reality (pilot study), and those who are strongly motivated to justify inequality show the bias to a greater extent (Studies 5 and 6), suggesting a motivated pathway. We also explore implications of the bias, finding that Americans tend to offer better opportunities to, and prefer to collaborate with, higher class than lower class others, revealing discriminatory outcomes that are partially driven by perceived goal value (Studies 2, 3, 4, 6). Results suggest that Americans expect higher class individuals to value achieving goals more than their lower class counterparts, fueling increased support for those who are already ahead. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).}, Doi = {10.1037/pspa0000346}, Key = {fds372427} } %% Kay, Aaron C. @article{fds371676, Author = {Stanley, ML and Huang, S and Marsh, EJ and Kay, AC}, Title = {The Role of Structure-Seeking in Moral Punishment}, Journal = {Social Justice Research}, Volume = {36}, Number = {4}, Pages = {410-431}, Year = {2023}, Month = {December}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11211-023-00416-8}, Abstract = {Four studies (total N = 1586) test the notion that people are motivated to punish moral rule violators because punishment offers a way to obtain structure and order in the world. First, in a correlational study, increased need for structure was associated with the stronger endorsement punishment for moral rule violators. This relationship between need for structure and punishment was not driven by political conservatism. Three experimental studies then tested, and corroborated, our main causal hypotheses: that threats to structure increase punitive judgments for moral rule violators (i.e., a compensatory mechanism; Study 2) and that a lack of punishment for wrongdoing (relative to punishment for wrongdoing) makes the world seem less structured in the moment (Studies 3 and 4). We compare and contrast our structure-based account of moral punishment to other theories and findings across the punishment literature.}, Doi = {10.1007/s11211-023-00416-8}, Key = {fds371676} } @article{fds373580, Author = {Tang, S and Shepherd, S and Kay, AC}, Title = {Morality's role in the Black Sheep Effect: When and why ingroup members are judged more harshly than outgroup members for the same transgression}, Journal = {European Journal of Social Psychology}, Volume = {53}, Number = {7}, Pages = {1605-1622}, Year = {2023}, Month = {December}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3001}, Abstract = {When and why might someone judge an ingroup transgressor more harshly than an outgroup transgressor? Taking a social functionalist perspective, we argue that morality is central to this phenomenon–the Black Sheep Effect–and that it is driven by social cohesion concerns. Using mediation and moderation methods across our studies, we find that people judge ingroup (vs. outgroup) transgressors more harshly because of concerns regarding ingroup social cohesion (Studies 1a–4). We also find that ingroup derogation is stronger for moral transgressions than weak or non-moral transgressions (Studies 2 and 3). Throughout our studies, we address alternative explanations, including moral relativism, naïve realism, moral parochialism and belief in a just world. Our work speaks to the emerging contention around the reliability of the Black Sheep Effect by noting when and why it surfaces.}, Doi = {10.1002/ejsp.3001}, Key = {fds373580} } @article{fds370748, Author = {Kay, AC and Ponce de Leon and R and Ho, AK and Kteily, NS}, Title = {Motivated Egalitarianism}, Journal = {Current Directions in Psychological Science}, Volume = {32}, Number = {4}, Pages = {293-299}, Year = {2023}, Month = {August}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09637214231154810}, Abstract = {Much research has examined the link between (anti-)egalitarian ideology and motivated social cognition. However, this research is typically framed around anti-egalitarianism, with the other end of this ideological pole, egalitarianism, often ignored altogether or treated as merely the absence of anti-egalitarian-motivated cognition. We integrate long-standing ideas from social dominance theory with contemporary models of motivated social cognition and a recent wave of empirical findings to argue that egalitarian ideology also drives social cognition in meaningful ways. We discuss why pursuing this avenue of research is important and outline several unanswered questions for future research.}, Doi = {10.1177/09637214231154810}, Key = {fds370748} } @article{fds370323, Author = {Stanley, ML and Shepherd, S and Kay, AC}, Title = {Heroization and ironic funneling effects.}, Journal = {Journal of personality and social psychology}, Volume = {125}, Number = {1}, Pages = {29-56}, Year = {2023}, Month = {July}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000336}, Abstract = {In recent years, much of the American public has venerated military veterans as heroes. Despite overwhelmingly positive public attitudes toward veterans, veterans have experienced higher rates of unemployment and underemployment than their nonveteran peers. The current research leverages theory and research on positive stereotypes to shed light on this seeming inconsistency between the heroization of veterans and their heightened rates of unemployment and underemployment. We conceptualize the hero label as a pervasive positive stereotype, and we employ complementary methods and designs (correlational, quasi-experimental, experimental, and mediational) to investigate the consequences and implications of attaching this label to military veterans. We then extend our theorizing to other heroized groups (e.g., firefighters, paramedics, teachers, and social workers). The results across studies suggest that heroization leads the American public to funnel heroized individuals and groups into a limited set of lower paying jobs, organizations, and careers associated with selflessness. This research not only offers insights into an important real-world problem but also offers a first experimental investigation of the consequences and implications of labeling a group of people as heroes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).}, Doi = {10.1037/pspa0000336}, Key = {fds370323} } @article{fds376863, Author = {Jost, JT and Goya-Tocchetto, D and Kay, AC}, Title = {The Psychology of Left-Right Political Polarization; and an Experimental Intervention for Curbing Partisan Animosity and Support for Antidemocratic Violence}, Journal = {Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science}, Volume = {708}, Number = {1}, Pages = {46-63}, Year = {2023}, Month = {July}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00027162241227778}, Abstract = {Healthy democratic polities feature competing visions of a good society. They also require tolerance, trust, and cooperation to avoid toxic polarization that puts democracy itself at risk. In the U.S., liberal-leftists and conservative-rightists differ in many attitudes, values, and personality traits, as well as tendencies to justify the unequal status quo and embrace authoritarian aggression and group-based dominance. Some of these differences imply that conflict between liberal-leftists and conservative-rightists is tantamount to a struggle for and against democratic ideals. However, these political and psychological differences between the left and the right do not necessarily mean that Americans are forever doomed to intergroup hatred and intractable political conflict. Some modest basis for optimism emerges from recent experimental interventions, including one that encourages people to identify with and justify the system of liberal democracy in the U.S.}, Doi = {10.1177/00027162241227778}, Key = {fds376863} } @article{fds367908, Author = {Ma, A and Savani, K and Liu, F and Tai, K and Kay, AC}, Title = {The mutual constitution of culture and psyche: The bidirectional relationship between individuals' perceived control and cultural tightness-looseness.}, Journal = {Journal of personality and social psychology}, Volume = {124}, Number = {5}, Pages = {901-916}, Year = {2023}, Month = {May}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000327}, Abstract = {According to the theory of mutual constitution of culture and psyche, just as culture shapes people, individuals' psychological states can influence culture. We build on compensatory control theory, which suggests that low personal control can lead people to prefer societal systems that impose order, to examine the mutual constitution of personal control and cultural tightness. Specifically, we tested whether individuals' lack of personal control increases their preference for tighter cultures as a means of restoring order and predictability, and whether tighter cultures in turn reduce people's feelings of personal control. Seven studies (five preregistered) with participants from the United States, Singapore, and China examine this cycle of mutual constitution. Specifically, documenting the correlational link between person and culture, we found that Americans lower on personal control preferred to live in tighter states (Study 1). Chinese employees lower on personal control also desired more structure and preferred a tighter organizational culture (Study 2). Employing an experimental causal chain design, Studies 3-5 provided causal evidence for our claim that lack of control increases desire for tighter cultures via the need for structure. Finally, tracing the link back from culture to person, Studies 6a and 6b found that whereas tighter cultures decreased perceptions of individual personal control, they increased people's sense of collective control. Overall, the findings document the process of mutual constitution of culture and psyche: lack of personal control leads people to seek more structured, tighter cultures, and that tighter cultures, in turn, decrease people's sense of personal control but increase their sense of collective control. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).}, Doi = {10.1037/pspa0000327}, Key = {fds367908} } @article{fds368557, Author = {Gibbs, WC and Kim, HS and Kay, AC and Sherman, DK}, Title = {Who needs control? A cultural perspective on the process of compensatory control}, Journal = {Social and Personality Psychology Compass}, Volume = {17}, Number = {2}, Year = {2023}, Month = {February}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12722}, Abstract = {Compensatory control theory (CCT) provides a framework for understanding the mechanisms at play when one's personal control is challenged. The model suggests that believing the world is a structured and predictable place is fundamental, insofar as it provides the foundation upon which people can believe they are able to exert control over their environment and act agentically towards goals. Because of this, CCT suggests, when personal control is threatened people try to reaffirm the more foundational belief in structure/predictability in the world, so that they then have a strong foundation to reestablish feelings of personal control and pursue their goals. This review seeks to understand how the basic assumptions of these compensatory control processes unfold in different cultural contexts. Drawing on research and theorizing from cultural psychology, we propose that cultural models of self and agency, culturally prevalent modes of control, and culture-specific motivations all have implications for compensatory control processes. Culture determines, in part, whether or not personal control deprivation is experienced as a threat to perceiving an orderly world, how/whether individuals respond to low personal control, and the function that responses to restore a sense of order in the world serve. A theoretical model of compensatory control processes across cultures is proposed that has implications for how people cope with a wide range of personal and societal events that potentially threaten their personal control.}, Doi = {10.1111/spc3.12722}, Key = {fds368557} } @article{fds371526, Author = {Kenthirarajah, DT and Camp, NP and Walton, GM and Kay, AC and Cohen, GL}, Title = {Does "Jamal" receive a harsher sentence than "James"? First-name bias in the criminal sentencing of Black men.}, Journal = {Law and human behavior}, Volume = {47}, Number = {1}, Pages = {169-181}, Year = {2023}, Month = {February}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000498}, Abstract = {<h4>Objective</h4>Using archival and experimental methods, we tested the role that racial associations of first names play in criminal sentencing.<h4>Hypotheses</h4>We hypothesized that Black defendants with more stereotypically Black names (e.g., Jamal) would receive more punitive sentences than Black defendants with more stereotypically White names (e.g., James).<h4>Method</h4>In an archival study, we obtained a random sample of 296 real-world records of Black male prison inmates in Florida and asked participants to rate the extent to which each inmate's first name was stereotypically Black or stereotypically White. We then tested the extent to which racial stereotypicality was associated with sentence length, controlling for relevant legal features of each case (e.g., criminal record, severity of convicted offenses). In a follow-up experiment, participant judges assigned sentences in cases in which the Black male defendant was randomly assigned a more stereotypically Black or White name from our archival study.<h4>Results</h4>Controlling for a wide array of factors-including criminal record-we found that inmates with more stereotypically Black versus White first names received longer sentences β = 0.09, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) [0.01, 0.16]: 409 days longer for names 1 standard deviation above versus below the mean on racial stereotypicality. In our experiment, participant judges recommended significantly longer sentences to Black inmates with more stereotypically Black names above and beyond the severity of the charges or their criminal history, β = 0.07, 95% CI [0.02, 0.13].<h4>Conclusions</h4>Our results identify how racial associations with first names can bias consequential sentencing decisions despite the impartial aims of the legal system. More broadly, our findings illustrate how racial biases manifest in distinctions made among members of historically marginalized groups, not just between members of different groups. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).}, Doi = {10.1037/lhb0000498}, Key = {fds371526} } @article{fds363672, Author = {Proudfoot, D and Kay, AC}, Title = {Communal expectations conflict with autonomy motives: The western drive for autonomy shapes women's negative responses to positive gender stereotypes.}, Journal = {Journal of personality and social psychology}, Volume = {124}, Number = {1}, Pages = {1-21}, Year = {2023}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000311}, Abstract = {Western culture idealizes an autonomous self-a self that strives for independence and freedom from the influence and control of others. We explored how the value placed on autonomy in Western culture intersects with the normative trait expectations experienced by men and women. While trait expectations placed on men (i.e., to be confident and assertive) affirm an autonomous sense of self, trait expectations placed on women (i.e., to be caring and understanding) conflict with an autonomous sense of self. We theorized that this conflict contributes to women's resentment toward positive gender stereotypes that emphasize women's interdependent qualities. Six preregistered studies (<i>N</i> = 2,094) demonstrated that U.S. women experienced more anger in response to positive-gendered trait expectations and less motivation to comply with them compared to U.S. men. We found that these effects were partially attributable to stereotypically feminine communal expectations affirming autonomy less than stereotypically masculine agentic expectations. Cross-cultural comparisons between the U.S. (a Western context) and India (a non-Western context) further indicated that the conflict between communal expectations placed on women and Western prioritization of autonomy contributes to U.S. women's anger toward positive gender stereotypes: Although traits expected of women in both the U.S. and India oriented women away from feeling autonomous more than traits expected of men, this diminished sense of being autonomous only elicited anger in a U.S. context. For Western societies, findings illuminate the uniquely frustrating nature of stereotyped expectations that demand interdependence and thus the unequal psychological burden placed on those who must contend with them. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).}, Doi = {10.1037/pspa0000311}, Key = {fds363672} } %% Larrick, Richard P. @article{fds373576, Author = {Fath, S and Larrick, RP and Soll, JB}, Title = {Encouraging self-blinding in hiring}, Journal = {Behavioral Science and Policy}, Volume = {9}, Number = {1}, Pages = {45-57}, Year = {2023}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23794607231192721}, Abstract = {One strategy for minimizing bias in hiring is blinding—purposefully limiting the information used when screening applicants to that which is directly relevant to the job and does not elicit bias based on race, gender, age, or other irrelevant characteristics. Blinding policies remain rare, however. An alternative to blinding policies is self-blinding, in which people performing hiring-related evaluations blind themselves to biasing information about applicants. Using a mock-hiring task, we tested ways to encourage self-blinding that take into consideration three variables likely to affect whether people self-blind: default effects on choices, people’s inability to assess their susceptibility to bias, and people’s tendency not to recognize the full range of information that can elicit that bias. Participants with hiring experience chose to receive or be blind to various pieces of information about applicants, some of which were potentially biasing. They selected potentially biasing information less often when asked to specify the applicant information they wanted to receive than when asked to specify the information they did not want to receive, when prescribing selections for other people than when making the selections for themselves, and when the information was obviously biasing than when it was less obviously so. On the basis of these findings, we propose a multipronged strategy that human resources leaders could use to enable and encourage hiring managers to self-blind when screening job applicants.}, Doi = {10.1177/23794607231192721}, Key = {fds373576} } %% Rosette, Ashleigh S. @article{fds374581, Author = {Ponce de Leon and R and Carter, JT and Rosette, AS}, Title = {Sincere solidarity or performative pretense? Evaluations of organizational allyship}, Journal = {Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes}, Volume = {180}, Year = {2024}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2023.104296}, Abstract = {Although organizations increasingly seek to communicate allyship with the Black community, their ally statements can receive vastly different responses from Black observers. We develop and test a theoretical model outlining key drivers of allyship evaluations among these perceivers. Drawing from signaling theory and integrating insights from the literature on identity safety, we reveal the costliness and consistency of ally statements as critical determinants of Black perceivers’ evaluations of organizations as allies. Two studies—the first leveraging statements released by Fortune 500 companies and the second a more controlled follow-up experiment—demonstrate the interactive effects of cost and consistency on these assessments. Specifically, the most positive allyship evaluations emerged for organizations whose statements conveyed both high cost and high consistency. Our findings have implications for organizations and business leaders who aim to communicate allyship. To be recognized as allies, devoting resources and incurring costs is not enough; organizations must also signal a consistent commitment to supporting marginalized communities.}, Doi = {10.1016/j.obhdp.2023.104296}, Key = {fds374581} } @article{fds372428, Author = {Ellett, T and Zanolli, N and Weber, JM and Erkanli, A and Rosette, AS and Dotters-Katz, SK and Davidson, B}, Title = {Gender and Language in Letters of Recommendation for Obstetrics and Gynecology Fellowship Applications.}, Journal = {J Surg Educ}, Volume = {80}, Number = {10}, Pages = {1424-1431}, Year = {2023}, Month = {October}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2023.07.003}, Abstract = {OBJECTIVE: To delineate the use of gender-biased language in letters of recommendation for Obstetrics and Gynecology fellowships and its impact on applicants. DESIGN: Fellowship letters of recommendation from 4 Obstetrics and Gynecology specialties at a single institution in 2020 were included. PRIMARY OUTCOME: frequency of agentic and communal language in letters of recommendation using Linguistics Inquiry Word Count software. SECONDARY OUTCOMES: letter of recommendation length and language utilization by author gender and applicant success measured by interviews and match success. Marginal models were fit to determine if language varied by applicant and writer gender and subspecialty. Modified Poisson regression models were used to determine associations between language and interview receipt. SETTING: Single academic institution (Duke University); 2020 OB/GYN fellowship application cycle. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 1216 letters of recommendation submitted by 326 unique applicants for OB/GYN subspecialty fellowships at our institution. RESULTS: Rates of gender-biased language were low (Agentic:1.3%; communal: 0.8%). Agentic term use did not vary by applicant or author gender (p = 0.78 and 0.16) Male authors utilized 19% fewer communal terms than females (p < 0.001). Each 0.25% increase in agentic language was associated with an 18% reduction in the probability of interview invitation at our institution (p = 0.004). Percentage of agentic or communal language was not associated with successful matching into any subspecialty. CONCLUSIONS: No differences in agentic vs communal language based on applicant gender were found in this cohort, though female letter writers wrote longer letters with more communal terms. Increasing agentic terms negatively impacted interview invitation but did not affect successful matching.}, Doi = {10.1016/j.jsurg.2023.07.003}, Key = {fds372428} } @article{fds376301, Author = {Ma, A and Ponce de Leon and R and Rosette, AS}, Title = {Asking for less (but receiving more): Women avoid impasses and outperform men when negotiators have weak alternatives.}, Journal = {The Journal of applied psychology}, Year = {2023}, Month = {October}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/apl0001138}, Abstract = {Both research and conventional wisdom suggest that, due to their relational orientation, women are less likely than men to engage in agentic and assertive behaviors, leading them to underperform in zero-sum, distributive negotiations where one party's gain is equivalent to the other party's loss. However, past research tends to neglect the costs of reaching impasse by excluding impasses from measures of negotiation performance. Departing from this convention, we incorporate the economic costs of impasses into measures of negotiation performance to provide a more holistic examination of negotiation outcomes. In so doing, we reveal a reversal of the oft-cited male performance advantage when obtaining an impasse is especially economically costly (as is the case when negotiators have weak negotiation alternatives). Specifically, we predicted that female negotiators would make less assertive first offers than men due to their more relational orientation and that these gender differences in offer assertiveness should result in women avoiding impasse more often than men. Since avoiding impasses should improve negotiation performance when negotiators are able to obtain a deal that is more valuable than their negotiation alternative, women's tendency to avoid impasses should improve their performance when negotiators have weak (vs. strong) alternatives. These predictions were supported in eight studies (three preregistered) across various negotiation contexts, comprising data from the television show Shark Tank (Study 1), four incentive-compatible negotiation simulations (Studies 2 and 3, Supplemental Studies), and a multistudy causal experimental chain (Supplemental Studies 4a-c). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).}, Doi = {10.1037/apl0001138}, Key = {fds376301} } @article{fds363804, Author = {Petsko, CD and Rosette, AS}, Title = {Are leaders still presumed white by default? Racial bias in leader categorization revisited.}, Journal = {The Journal of applied psychology}, Volume = {108}, Number = {2}, Pages = {330-340}, Year = {2023}, Month = {February}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/apl0001020}, Abstract = {In the United States, leaders of the highest valued companies, best-ranked universities, and most-consumed media outlets are more likely to be White than what would be expected based on White people's representation in the U.S. population. One explanation for this racial gap is that U.S. respondents' prototype of a leader is White by default-which is, in turn, what causes White (vs. non-White) people to be promoted up the organizational ladder more quickly. Although this explanation has empirical support, its central premise was recently challenged by experimental evidence documenting that U.S. respondents no longer associate leaders, more than nonleaders, with being White. To reconcile these contradictory findings, we conducted three preregistered experiments (<i>N</i> = 1,316) on the topic of whether leaders, more than nonleaders, continue to be associated with Whiteness (i.e., being categorized as White or being represented with stereotypically White qualities). Results suggest that associations between leaders and Whiteness hold up to scrutiny, but that detecting them may depend on what methods researchers employ. In particular, when researchers use direct methods of detecting racial assumptions (e.g., self-report measures), there appears to be no evidence of an association between leaders and Whiteness (Experiment 1). Yet, when researchers use more indirect methods of detecting racial assumptions (e.g., a Princeton trilogy task), an association between leaders and Whiteness readily emerges (Experiments 2 and 3). In short, although respondents refrain from freely expressing associations they may harbor between leaders and Whiteness, these associations do not appear to have dissipated with time. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).}, Doi = {10.1037/apl0001020}, Key = {fds363804} } %% Sitkin, Sim B. @misc{fds376912, Author = {Long, CP and Sitkin, SB}, Title = {Trust attractors: A dynamical systems approach to trust research}, Pages = {63-75}, Booktitle = {A Research Agenda for Trust: Interdisciplinary Perspectives}, Year = {2024}, Month = {January}, ISBN = {9781802200935}, Key = {fds376912} } @article{fds372829, Author = {Lumineau, F and Long, C and Sitkin, SB and Argyres, N and Markman, G}, Title = {Rethinking Control and Trust Dynamics in and between Organizations}, Journal = {Journal of Management Studies}, Volume = {60}, Number = {8}, Pages = {1937-1961}, Year = {2023}, Month = {December}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joms.12999}, Abstract = {Control and trust issues are at the heart of collaboration in and between organizations. In this introduction to the Special Issue (SI) on the control-trust dynamics, we first propose an integrative framework to take stock of the main themes discussed in both the micro and macro literature. We then contextualize how the papers in this issue flesh out key mechanisms underlying the interplay between control and trust over time. The remainder of the introduction highlights directions for future research by refining and extending our understanding of control and trust as mechanisms of collaboration across levels of analysis. Our future research suggestions are organized around the main building blocks of control-trust research: (1) constructs, (2) interactions, (3) actors, (4) temporal dynamics, (5) outcomes, and (6) context.}, Doi = {10.1111/joms.12999}, Key = {fds372829} } @article{fds373567, Author = {Fox, CR and Sitkin, SB}, Title = {Editors’ note}, Journal = {Behavioral Science and Policy}, Volume = {9}, Number = {1}, Pages = {iv-v}, Year = {2023}, Month = {April}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23794607231190600}, Doi = {10.1177/23794607231190600}, Key = {fds373567} } @article{fds371272, Author = {Fischer, T and Sitkin, SB}, Title = {LEADERSHIP STYLES: A COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT AND WAY FORWARD}, Journal = {Academy of Management Annals}, Volume = {17}, Number = {1}, Pages = {331-372}, Year = {2023}, Month = {January}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/annals.2020.0340}, Abstract = {We systematically review eight positive (authentic, charismatic, consideration and initiating structure, empowering, ethical, instrumental, servant, and transformational leadership) and two negative leadership styles (abusive supervision and destructive leadership) and identify valence-based conflation as a limitation common to all ten styles. This limitation rests on specifying behaviors as inherently positive or negative and leads to mixing the description of the content of leadership behaviors with the evaluation of their underlying intentions, quality of execution, or behavioral effects. We outline how this conflation leads to amalgamation, construct redundancy, and most problematically, causal indeterminacy, which calls into question the entire evidence base of leadership style research. These weaknesses are not limited to the ten leadership styles but are inherent in the valenced research logic that has been dominant for seventy years. Thus, the common finding that positive leadership styles lead to positive outcomes and negative styles lead to negative outcomes might be an artifact of conflation rather than a reflection of reality. To address these concerns, we suggest distinguishing between intended and displayed leadership styles, as well as their realized effects. We also call for utilizing a configurational approach. These recommended actions would provide a strong foundation for future research on leadership styles.}, Doi = {10.5465/annals.2020.0340}, Key = {fds371272} } | |
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