The transition to a new leader role requires identity work. New leaders are likely to
experience anxiety, threat, and conflict related to valued aspects of their identities. These …

Most readers would agree that interaction is integral to all conceptions of leadership.
Nevertheless, the scholarly literature on leadership has included very few observational …

Although the topic of leadership is increasingly becoming an area of interest for discourse
analysts, most of the studies on leadership discourse focus on business meetings and …

The stories we tell about our origins can shape how we think and act–helping us make
sense of and communicate who we have “become” over time. To better understand the role …

This research extends our understanding of gender bias in leader evaluations by merging
role congruity and implicit theory perspectives. We tested and found support for the …

Style isn't women's problem. The most recent research on gender in leadership indicates
that while women tend to adopt different leadership styles than men, they are rated to be just …

Fascination with leadership and its relation to world events seems to be ever growing, and
leadership narratives are a key element through which leader identities are constructed …

This study examined the extent to which personality predicts leaders' reactions to
multisource feedback and use of the feedback for development. Leaders (N= 116) in an elite …

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in distributed approaches to leadership
which place the emphasis on team processes rather than harping back to heroic notions of …

Among the most studied aspects of small group communication has been leadership, and
within this area emergent leadership has enjoyed perhaps the greatest attention. Leaderless …