Journal article
Connecting influence tactics with full-range leadership styles
Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Vol.39(1), pp.2-13
2017
Abstract
Purpose – Full-range leadership theory and power-and-influence approaches to leadership emerge from different theoretical traditions, but may overlap conceptually and practically. Previous research has found connections between full-range leadership styles and leaders' influencing behaviors. However, this research has been conceptually and methodologically limited, neither examining all full-range leadership styles nor all common influence tactics, and measuring only employees' perceptions. The purpose of this paper is to address these limitations.
Design/methodology/approach – Follower-rated leadership styles and influence tactics, and leader-rated leadership styles were surveyed for 160 pairs of leaders and followers (n=320).
Findings – Core influence tactics and apprising were correlated with, and predicted, follower-rated transformational and transactional leadership, but confirmatory factor analysis provided a more nuanced view of these relationships. Rational persuasion (negatively) predicted passive-avoidant leadership. There were few significant correlations between leader-self-rated leadership styles and followers' ratings of leaders' influence tactics.
Originality/value – This study extends upon previous studies by more comprehensively connecting full-range leadership styles and influence tactics, and doing so with both leader-rated and follower-rated leadership styles. The results help to provide a clearer picture of the overlap between full-range and power-and-influence theories of leadership. The mismatches between results from leader-rated and follower-rated leadership styles raise conceptual, practical, and methodological questions for future research.
Details
- Title
- Connecting influence tactics with full-range leadership styles
- Authors/Creators
- G.J. Curtis (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Vol.39(1), pp.2-13
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Ltd
- Identifiers
- 991005544355907891
- Copyright
- © 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Psychology and Exercise Science
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- 6 Social Sciences
- 6.3 Management
- 6.3.48 Organizational Behavior
- Web Of Science research areas
- Management
- ESI research areas
- Economics & Business