Recently added articles from Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies:

Are we on the same page? Effects of self-awareness of empowering and transformational leadership.

Feb 01, 2008; Tekleab, Amanuel G. ... This study examines the effects of leaders' self-awareness of their own leadership on followers' satisfaction, self-leadership, and leader effectiveness. A leader's self-awareness was conceptualized as the degree of similarity between the leader's self-description and his or her followers' ...

What do leaders recall about their multisource feedback?

Feb 01, 2008; Smither, James W. ... We examined 145 leaders' recall of their multisource feedback (MSF) 9 months after receiving the feedback. Leaders recalled more strengths than weaknesses, but these memories had only a small relationship with the actual feedback received. Leaders were more likely to recall feedback ...

Communicator style and social style: testing a theoretical interface.

Feb 01, 2008; Snavely, William B. ... The purpose of this empirical study was to examine the interface between two key models of communication style: social style and communicator style. Social style is based on a two-by-two matrix composed of two dimensions of observable patterns of behavior: assertiveness and emotiveness ....

The interactive effects of job insecurity and organizational cynicism on work effort following a layoff.

Feb 01, 2008; Brandes, Pamela ... The widespread layoffs of the past 25 years have caused unparalleled levels of distrust and frustration in organizations. Organizational cynicism, which is frequently a manifestation of this pervasive phenomenon, has been shown to affect postlayoff attitudes and behaviors. It is generally ...

Unpacking personal adaptability at work.

Feb 01, 2008; O'Connell, David J. ... Adaptability is a key competency for career success. In this article, the authors examine how individual adaptability is associated with the accrual of human capital, the organization of the work environment, and the characteristics of individuals. They find that a number of factors are ...

Setting goals and taking ownership: understanding the implications of participatively set goals from a causal attribution perspective.

Feb 01, 2008; Karakowsky, Leonard ... The purpose of this theoretical article is to explore the psychological processes underlying employee participation in goal setting. Specifically, it presents a conceptual model that attempts to illustrate the potential pattern of causal self-attributions generated following the ...