@article{KearneyShemlavanKnippenbergetal.2019,
  author    = {Kearney, Eric and Shemla, Meir and van Knippenberg, Daan and Scholz, Florian A.},
  title     = {A paradox perspective on the interactive effects of visionary and empowering leadership},
  series = {Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes},
  volume    = {155},
  journal   = {Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {San Diego},
  issn      = {0749-5978},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.obhdp.2019.01.001},
  pages     = {20 -- 30},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {In a multi-source, lagged design field study of 197 leader-follower dyads, we test a model that predicts positive interactive effects of visionary and empowering leadership on follower performance. Based on the paradox perspective, we argue that visionary and empowering leadership are synergistic in that their combination enables leaders to address a key paradox inherent to leader behavior identified by Waldman and Bowen (2016): Maintaining control while simultaneously letting go of control. We argue that visionary leadership addresses the former and empowering leadership addresses the latter pole of this pair of opposites. Hence, in line with paradox thinking, we posit that leaders will engender more positive effects on follower performance when they enact visionary and empowering leadership behaviors simultaneously and adopt a "both-and" approach, rather than focus on one of these behaviors without the other. Our results support our hypothesized interactive effect of visionary and empowering leadership on goal clarity, as well as a conditional indirect effect such that goal clarity mediates the interactive effect of visionary and empowering leadership on individual follower performance.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ShemlaKearneyWeggeetal.2020,
  author    = {Shemla, Meir and Kearney, Eric and Wegge, J{\"u}rgen and Stegmann, Sebastian},
  title     = {Unlocking the performance potential of functionally diverse teams},
  series = {Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology},
  volume    = {93},
  journal   = {Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {0963-1798},
  doi       = {10.1111/joop.12303},
  pages     = {530 -- 555},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {In a multisource, lagged design field study of 66 consulting teams, we investigated the role of leader mood in unlocking the performance potential of functionally diverse teams. In line with our hypotheses, we found that, given high levels of leader positive mood, functional diversity was positively related to collective team identification. In contrast, given high levels of leader negative mood, functional diversity was positively associated with information elaboration in teams. Furthermore, results showed that functional diversity was most strongly related to team performance when both leader positive mood and leader negative mood were high. This study highlights the value of examining seemingly contradictory leadership aspects in the effort to gain a fuller understanding of how to foster performance in diverse teams. Practitioner points To effectively lead diverse teams, leaders need to navigate between the need to promote unique ideas (i.e., information elaboration) and the simultaneous need to pull together diverse members towards a common identity. Leader mood addresses both of these needs. When the team leader exhibited a positive mood, team functional diversity was positively related to members' identification with the team. By contrast, when the team leader displayed a negative mood, team functional diversity was positively related to information elaboration. Over a 12-day period, diverse teams performed best when the leader showed both positive and negative mood. Leaders of diverse teams are required to be sensitive to the affective tone of their team and aware of how their emotional displays influence team members' moods and behaviours as well as team processes.},
  language  = {en}
}