What is leadership? Most organizational theorists agree that effective leadership is one of the most important contributors to overall organizational success. What leadership is and what leaders do to ensure team and organizational success is less well understood. Leadership as social influence. A common definition of leadership is "a process of social influence by which an individual enlists t...

This article analyzes the relationship between organizational change and employee health. It illuminates the potentially negative outcomes of change at the level of the employee. In addition, it relates to the ongoing debate over how employees react to and respond to organizational change. I hypothesize that change increases the risk of negative stress, and I test this hypothesis using a compre...