Fostering employee trust via effective supervisory communication during the COVID-19 pandemic: Through the lens of motivating language theory

LR Men, YS Qin, J Jin - International Journal of Business …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines how supervisory leadership communication during the COVID-19
pandemic fostered employee trust through the lens of motivating language theory. Drawing …

Examining the effects of internal communication and emotional culture on employees' organizational identification

CA Yue, LR Men, MA Ferguson - International Journal of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
As one of the first empirical attempts investigating the emerging role of positive emotional
culture within organizations, the study examined how a symmetrical internal communication …

“Vision, passion, and care:” The impact of charismatic executive leadership communication on employee trust and support for organizational change

LR Men, CA Yue, Y Liu - Public Relations Review, 2020 - Elsevier
This study explored how charismatic executive leadership communication during change
influences employees' attitudinal and behavioral reaction toward change. Specifically, it …

Distance learning as a resilience strategy during Covid-19: An analysis of the Italian context

A Appolloni, N Colasanti, C Fantauzzi, G Fiorani… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the strategic model of distance learning adopted by
Italian higher education, showing how the health emergency due to Covid-19 has …

Empathetic leadership: How leader emotional support and understanding influences follower performance

N Kock, M Mayfield, J Mayfield… - … of Leadership & …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This article presents a theory of empathetic leadership and its initial test. Empathetic
leadership provides a model of how leader understanding and support improves follower …

Charting RAD Research as an Orientation to Creativity in Writing Studies

KS Sarraf - Written Communication, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Writing studies must conduct replicable, aggregable, and data-supported (RAD) research to
understand the relationship between creativity and writing, including how writers use …

Cultivating relationships with startup employees: the role of entrepreneurs' leadership communication

LR Men, ZF Chen, YG Ji - Management Communication …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines how CEOs' use of motivating language influences employee
relationships within startup organizations. Informed by self-determination theory and social …

Sound and safe: The role of leader motivating language and follower self-leadership in feelings of psychological safety

M Mayfield, J Mayfield - Administrative Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
This manuscript presents a study on how leader motivating language and follower self-
leadership act to influence a follower's feelings of psychological safety. This study found that …

Leader communication and follower identity: How leader motivating language shapes organizational identification through cultural knowledge and fit

M Mayfield, J Mayfield… - International Journal of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines the links between leader communication (as conceptualized through
motivating language) and follower organizational identification as mediated by follower …

Leadership going social: How US nonprofit executives engage publics on Twitter

CA Yue, YS Qin, M Vielledent, LR Men… - Telematics and Informatics, 2021 - Elsevier
This study explored how nonprofit executives in the US engaged with online publics through
various communication strategies. We investigated the extent to which nonprofit executives …