Journal
LEADERSHIP QUARTERLY
Volume 26, Issue 5, Pages 892-908Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2015.06.006
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Leadership identity; Relational; Gender; Competence; Avatars
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- Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies (ICOS) at the University of Michigan
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This paper empirically tests leadership identity construction theory (DeRue & Ashford, 2010), conceptually framing claiming and granting leadership as a negotiated process that influences leadership perceptions and decision-making in interdependent contexts. In Study la, an avatar video-based experimental vignette (replicated in Study 1b with a non-video scenario), we found that when a team member accepted an actor's leadership claim, observers' leadership ratings of the actor increased, whereas when the team member rejected the claim, observers' leadership ratings of the fellow team member increased. However, when an actor granted leadership, the fellow team member's response did not influence leadership ratings. Study 2 extended the conceptual model by identifying how claiming and granting influence leadership perceptions - through perceived competence - and when claiming and granting exert greatest influence, finding that women observers vary more in their responses to claiming and granting. The negotiated relational leader identity process ultimately influenced observer decision-making. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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