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The moderator role of followers’ personality traits in the relations between leadership styles, two types of task performance and work result satisfaction
Pilar RipollJosé M. PeiróLucas Monzanisubject
Authentic leadershipOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementTransformational leadershipTransactional leadershipLeadership styleConscientiousnessIndustrial and organizational psychologyBig Five personality traitsModerationPsychologySocial psychologyApplied Psychologydescription
Authentic leadership is changing our understanding of what makes good leadership. However, few studies have explored how followers’ individual differences and the nature of the task they perform affect its relation to followers’ work outcomes. We examine the moderator role of two core task types (intellective vs. generative) and two personality traits (conscientiousness and emotional stability) in the relationship between two leadership feedback styles (authentic vs. transactional) and task performance or work result satisfaction in a two-wave experiment. The sample consisted of 228 participants enrolled in an organizational psychology course, 34% of whom had work experience. Our results show that over time the effect of an authentic feedback style on task performance became stronger for those participants who previously scored very low on intellective tasks or very high on generative tasks. Furthermore, a significant three-way interaction between these two traits and our leadership feedback styles indica...
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-05-01 | European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology |