The awestruck effect: Followers suppress emotion expression in response to charismatic but not individually considerate leadership

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  • Jochen I. Menges
  • Martin Kilduff
  • Sarah Kern
  • Heike Bruch
چکیده

Editor: Janaki Gooty This study examines how followers regulate their outward expression of emotions in the context of two types of leadership that are commonly associated with transformational leadership, namely charismatic leadership and individually considerate leadership. Based on new theorizing and a series of three studies involving experiments and field work, we show that the two types of leadership have different effects on followers' emotional expressiveness. Specifically, we find that followers under the influence of leaders' charisma tend to suppress the expression of emotions (we call this the “awestruck effect”), but followers express emotions when leaders consider them individually. Awestruck followersmay suffer from expressive inhibition even as charismatic leaders stir their hearts. © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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تاریخ انتشار 2015