Leadership in Applied Psychology: Three Waves of Theory and Research

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lord, Robert G.; Day, David V.; Zaccaro, Stephen J.; Avolio, Bruce J.; Eagly, Alice H.
• 署名单位: Durham University; Claremont Colleges; Claremont McKenna College; Claremont Graduate University; George Mason University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Northwestern University; Northwestern University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/apl0000089
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 434-451
• 关键词: categorization theory; GENDER; leadership; teams; traits

摘要

Although in the early years of the Journal leadership research was rare and focused primarily on traits differentiating leaders from nonleaders, subsequent to World War II the research area developed in 3 major waves of conceptual, empirical, and methodological advances: (a) behavioral and attitude research; (b) behavioral, social-cognitive, and contingency research; and (c) transformational, social exchange, team, and gender-related research. Our review of this work shows dramatic increases in sophistication from early research focusing on personnel issues associated with World War I to contemporary multilevel models and meta-analyses on teams, shared leadership, leader-member exchange, gender, ethical, abusive, charismatic, and transformational leadership. Yet, many of the themes that characterize contemporary leadership research were also present in earlier research.