Scholars and practitioners alike have recognized that younger workers, collectively known
as Millennials or GenMe, are different from workers in prior generations. Employees of this …

We offer a comprehensive review of the theoretical underpinnings and existing empirical
evidence in the implicit leadership and implicit followership theories domain. After briefly …

Leaders must scan the internal and external environment, chart strategic and task
objectives, and provide performance feedback. These instrumental leadership (IL) functions …

Much has changed in the last 20 years, but have people's naïve conceptions of leaders
changed as well? Paralleling Offermann et al.'s (1994) study of the content of implicit …

We conducted a field experiment to analyze if there is a glass ceiling for ethnic minorities
entering leadership positions in organizations. We submitted over 12,000 job applications …

Implicit theories play important roles in many areas of human life. In this review, we focus on
implicit leadership and followership theories, ie implicit assumptions of (good) leaders and …

Reexamines, via meta-analysis, the relation between personality traits and leadership
perceptions or extent of leader emergence, arguing that prior research on trait theories and …

This paper reports results from a series of studies designed to directly test a categorization-
based model of leadership perceptions in three areas: specifying the internal structure of …

Leadership is an integral component of the human experience and of practical importance to
all. For nearly 25 years, the multiple editions of Hackman and Johnsons outstanding work …

Executive leadership is critically important to understanding the workings and performance
of organizations, yet it is a topic that is usually ignored by mainstream leadership research …