TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sparr, Jennifer L.
A1  - van Knippenberg, Daan
A1  - Kearney, Eric
T1  - Paradoxical leadership as sensegiving
BT  - stimulating change-readiness and change-oriented performance
JF  - Leadership & organization development journal
N2  - Purpose Paradoxical leadership (PL) is an emerging perspective to understand how leaders help followers deal with paradoxical demands. Recently, the positive relationship between PL and follower performance was established. This paper builds on and extends this research by interpreting PL as sensegiving and developing theory about mediation in the relationship between PL and adaptive and proactive performance. Design/methodology/approach The paper develops a new measure for PL as sensegiving and provides a test of the mediation model with data from two different sources and two measurement times in a German company. Findings Multilevel mediation analysis (N = 154) supports the mediation model. Originality/value The paper presents sensegiving about paradox as a core element of PL, which informs the choice of change-readiness as mediator. This study also develops and validates a scale to measure PL in future research.
KW  - Paradoxical leadership
KW  - Sensegiving
KW  - Change-readiness
KW  - Adaptive
KW  - performance
KW  - Proactive performance
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1108/LODJ-04-2021-0161
SN  - 0143-7739
SN  - 1472-5347
VL  - 43
IS  - 2
SP  - 225
EP  - 237
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
CY  - Bingley
ER  -