A CIRCADIAN THEORY OF PARADOXICAL LEADERSHIP

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Volk, Stefan; Waldman, David A.; Barnes, Christopher M.
• 署名单位: Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/amr.2020.0468
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 611-638
• 关键词: EMPOWERING LEADERSHIP; SHARED LEADERSHIP; HUMAN-PERFORMANCE; MEMBER EXCHANGE; JOB DEMANDS; sleep; MODEL; management; BEHAVIOR; rhythms

摘要

Paradoxical leadership-the integration of leadership behaviors that are seemingly contradictory, but nevertheless interdependent-is becoming increasingly important in today's complex and turbulent business environments. Despite evidence for the positive consequences of paradoxical leadership, little research has examined how and when leaders can effectively integrate or reconcile opposing leadership behaviors. Two of the most fundamental paradoxical challenges that leaders face include the need to integrate control and empowerment, as well as reconciling collective rules with followers' individual needs. In this article, we advance a circadian theory of paradoxical leadership that outlines how leaders can combine episodic thinking with circadian principles to achieve a dynamic equilibrium between the opposing poles of these two leadership para-doxes. Our temporal framework explains how leaders can effectively structure paradoxical leadership episodes that leverage their own and their followers' circadian processes within a broader framework of situation-driven leadership. In doing so, we contribute to future research by providing a novel circadian perspective on how paradoxical tensions in organizations can be reconciled within the constraints of situational demands.