When Does Self-Sacrificial Leadership Motivate Prosocial Behavior? It Depends on Followers' Prevention Focus

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: De Cremer, David; Mayer, David M.; van Dijke, Marius; Schouten, Barbara C.; Bardes, Mary
• 署名单位: Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida; Open University Netherlands; University of Amsterdam
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/a0014782
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 887-899
• 关键词: Leadership; self-sacrifice; PREVENTION FOCUS; REGULATORY FOCUS; COOPERATION

摘要

In the present set of studies, the authors examine the idea that self-sacrificial leadership motivates follower prosocial behavior, particularly among followers with a prevention focus. Drawing on the self-sacrificial leadership literature and regulatory focus theory, the authors provide results from 4 studies (I laboratory and 3 field studies) that support the research hypothesis. Specifically, the relationship between self-sacrificial leadership and prosocial behavior (i.e., cooperation. organizational citizenship behavior) is stronger among followers who are high in prevention focus. Implications for the importance of taking a follower-centered approach to leadership are discussed.