Purpose: This paper aims to examine how psychological need satisfaction (PNS) relates to the display of servant leadership (SL) behavior through the motivation to serve (MTS) and non-calculative motivation to lead (MTL). Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected using an electronic...

Purpose: The study investigated the factors considered by subordinates when evaluating the productivity of their managers, in addition to how those factors influenced such feedback. Design/methodology/approach: A questionnaire survey was conducted among participants. The results were processed...

Purpose: The aim of the research is to investigate the influence of leadership on firm financial performance and to explore the mediating role of employees' readiness to change. Design/methodology/approach: The paper hypothesizes that employees' readiness to change mediates the relationship...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to increased knowledge of destructive leadership in crisis management. The specific research questions are: (1) What types of destructive leadership behaviours can be identified in leaders in crisis management? and (2) Why are these behaviours...

Purpose: Based on the upper echelons and organisational identification theories, this paper focuses on the relationship between servant leadership and firm innovativeness, as well as the underlying mechanisms that explain this relationship. More specifically, we analyse the relationship between...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the harmful effect of abusive supervision on employee creativity through feedback-seeking behavior (FSB) and the moderation of this mediation by proactive personality. Design/methodology/approach: This study conducted hierarchical regression and...

Purpose: As an essential personality charm of leaders, humor can bring a series of positive outcomes to both users and receivers. However, there is also evidence that the impact of leaders’ humor (LH) is constrained by individuals, teams and organizational factors. The aim of this research is...

Purpose: Leadership has a powerful influence on learning and development in today's organizations. Various types of leadership have been found to be conducive to building a learning organization. This empirical study compared the effect of transformational and servant leadership on a learning...

Purpose: A worker with a proactive personality actively pursues changes in the environment instead of maintaining the status quo, leading to an expected result of a negative relationship between proactive personality and psychological withdrawal behaviors. The authors propose that based on the...

Purpose: This paper examines the relationship between chief executive officers' (CEOs') leadership behaviors (consideration and initiating structure) and firm and individual performance (i.e. profitability, affective commitment and employees' willingness to change) in small and medium-sized...