Leadership & Organization Development Journal: Volume 41 Issue 4

How transformational leadership facilitates innovation capability: the mediating role of employees' psychological capital

Hui Lei, Lathong Leaungkhamma, Phong Ba Le

This paper aims to investigate the effects of transformational leadership on individuals and organization’s innovation capability via the mediating role of employees' positive…

Responsible leadership and triple-bottom-line performance—do corporate reputation and innovation mediate this relationship?

Muzhar Javed, Hafiz Yasir Ali, Muhammad Asrar-ul-Haq, Moazzam Ali, Syed Ali Ashiq Kirmani

Drawing on stakeholder theory and contingency theory, this study empirically investigates the relationship between responsible leadership (RL) and each dimension of…

The link between transformational leadership and work-related performance: moderated-mediating roles of meaningfulness and job characteristics

Seung-Hyun Han, Eunjung Grace Oh, Sung “Pil” Kang

Based on the job characteristics theory (Oldham and Hackman, 2010), the authors highlighted the mediating role of job meaningfulness as a critical psychological state. Employees'…

A qualitative investigation on combined effects of distant leadership, organisational agility and digital collaboration on perceived employee engagement

Ronald Busse, Georg Weidner

Environments coined as “VUCA” (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) are hotbeds for new modi operandi in organisations that involve a shift from face-to-face towards…

Emotional intelligence and transformational leadership in virtual teams: lessons from MMOGs

Sofia Mysirlaki, Fotini Paraskeva

As business is becoming more global, virtual teams are getting increasingly prevalent. The purpose of this paper is to examine virtual team effectiveness by taking a deeper look…

Destructive leadership in crisis management

Maria Fors Brandebo

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…

Implicit followership theories from the perspective of followers

Yongyong Yang, Wendian Shi, Beina Zhang, Youming Song, Dezhen Xu

The purpose of this paper is to explore the structure, implicit attitude and consequences of followers' implicit followership theories in the Chinese cultural context through…

The effect of nepotism on tolerance to workplace incivility: mediating role of psychological contract violation and moderating role of authentic leadership

Hasan Evrim arici, Huseyin Arasli, Nagihan Cakmakoglu Arici

This multilevel study investigates the effect of employees' perception of nepotism on tolerance to workplace incivility through the mediating role of psychological contract…

Promoting firm innovativeness through servant leadership and corporate social responsibility to employees

Francisco Fermín Mallén Broch, Emilio Domínguez Escrig, Ricardo Chiva Gómez, Rafael Lapiedra Alcamí

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…