Organizations are increasingly investing in training programs for building managerial skills, with a special focus on employees considered ‘talents’ who must be prepared to cover strategic roles within the organization. One of the main goals of such programs is to develop participants'...

Drawing on the conceptual foundations of leader-member exchange and behavior modeling we investigate the effects of managers' coaching intensity on the performance of those they supervise at multiple levels of an organizational hierarchy. Data from 328 sales people reporting to 114 middle...

Conceptualizing episodes of interpersonal conflict at work as affective events, this research examined the effect of such conflict episodes on employees' affective experiences on the job. We also examined the role of agreeableness and social support in moderating employees' affective reactions...

This paper investigates the extent to which differences in the likelihood of emerging as leaders are explained by genetic differences between individuals. Results indicated that approximately 17% of the variance in the latent construct of leadership emergence is explained by genetic effects that...