Paradoxical leadership as sensegiving
- 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.
Author details: | Jennifer L. SparrORCiD, Daan van Knippenberg, Eric KearneyORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1108/LODJ-04-2021-0161 |
ISSN: | 0143-7739 |
ISSN: | 1472-5347 |
Title of parent work (English): | Leadership & organization development journal |
Subtitle (English): | stimulating change-readiness and change-oriented performance |
Publisher: | Emerald Group Publishing Limited |
Place of publishing: | Bingley |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2022/01/17 |
Publication year: | 2022 |
Release date: | 2023/09/06 |
Tag: | Adaptive; Change-readiness; Paradoxical leadership; Proactive performance; Sensegiving; performance |
Volume: | 43 |
Issue: | 2 |
Number of pages: | 13 |
First page: | 225 |
Last Page: | 237 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Fachgruppe Betriebswirtschaftslehre | |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht | |
Peer review: | Referiert |
License (German): | CC-BY-NC - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell 4.0 International |