Citation: Kafetsios KG and Gruda D (2018) Interdependent Followers Prefer Avoidant Leaders: Followers’ Cultural Orientation Moderates Leaders’ Avoidance Relationships with Followers’ Work Outcomes. Front. Commun. 3:9. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2018.00009 interdependent Followers Prefer avoidant leaders: Followers’ cultural Orientation Moderates leaders’ avoidance relationships with Followers’ Work Out...

Article history: Received 6 January 2012 Revised 21 January 2013 Accepted 1 February 2013 Available online 27 February 2013 Whatmakes people perceive a leader as charismatic, andhowdo team leaders obtain performance outcomes from their followers? We examine leaders in times of organizational change and investigate the mechanisms through which leaders' change-promoting behaviors are associated w...

Previous research indicated that leader moral identity (MI; i.e., leaders' self-definition in terms of moral attributes) predicts to what extent followers perceive their leader as ethical (i.e., demonstrating and promoting ethical conduct in the organization). Leadership, however, is a relational process that involves leaders and followers. Building on this understanding, we hypothesized that f...

We describe the service-for-prestige theory of leadership, which proposes that voluntary leader-follower relations evolved in humans via a process of reciprocal exchange that generated adaptive benefits for both leaders and followers. We propose that although leader-follower relations first emerged in the human lineage to solve problems related to information sharing and social coordination, th...

Online Social Media (OSM) is extensively used by contemporary Internet users to communicate, socialize and disseminate information. This has led to the creation of a distinct online social identity which in turn has created the need of online social reputation management techniques. A significant percentage of OSM users utilize various methods to drive and manage their reputation on OSM. This h...

We present a preliminary study on how followers and non-followers of a popular CEO respond differently to a public apology by the CEO in Twitter. Sentiment analysis tool was used to measure the effect of the apology. We find that CEO’s apology had clear benefits in this case. As expected, it was more effective to followers than non-followers. However, followers showed a higher degree of change ...

BACKGROUND Effective leaders understand that loyal followers are the key for success. To win their loyalty, leaders usually build social exchange relationships with them, through a wide range of behaviours, such as honouring agreements or using open and transparent communication. However, the effect of these behaviours on their followers' loyalty can differ depending on followers' individual di...