An Exploration of the Role of Subordinate Affect in Leader Evaluations

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• Personal Author:
  Brees JR ; Harvey P ; Mackey JD ; Martinko MJ ; McAllister CP ; Moss SE
• Description:
  Leadership research has been encumbered by a proliferation of constructs and measures, despite little evidence that each is sufficiently conceptually and operationally distinct from the others. We draw from research on subordinates' implicit theories of leader behavior, behaviorally anchored rating scales, and decision making to argue that leader affect (i.e., the degree to which subordinates have positive and negative feelings about their supervisors) underlies the common variance shared by many leadership measures. To explore this possibility, we developed and validated measures of positive and negative leader affect (i.e., the Leader Affect Questionnaires; LAQs). We conducted 10 studies to develop the five-item positive and negative LAQs and to examine their convergent, discriminant, predictive, and criterion-related validity. We conclude that a) the LAQs provide highly reliable and valid tools for assessing subordinates' evaluations of their leaders; b) there is significant overlap between existing leadership measures, and a large proportion of this overlap is a function of the affect captured by the LAQs; c) when the LAQs are used as control variables, in most cases, they reduce the strength of relationships between leadership measures and other variables; d) the LAQs account for significant variance in outcomes beyond that explained by other leadership measures; and e) there is a considerable amount of unexplained variance between leadership measures that the LAQs do not capture. Research suggestions are provided and the implications of our results are discussed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Decision Making Occupational Health Safety Surveys And Questionnaires
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Affect Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scales Behavior Patterns Decision Making Implicit Leadership Theory Leadership Psychological Factors Questionnaires Work Organization
• ISSN:
  0021-9010
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Alabama ; Arizona ; Florida ; Massachusetts ; New Hampshire ; North Carolina ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  103
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20059620
• Citation:
  J Appl Psychol 2018 Jul; 103(7):738-752
• Contact Point Address:
  Mark J. Martinko, School of Business and Industry, Florida A&M University, 500 Gamble Street, Tallahassee, FL 32307-5200
• Email:
  mark.martinko@famu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• Performing Organization:
  Sunshine Education and Research Center, University of South Florida
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Applied Psychology
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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  urn:sha-512:3bd6558186fd9fb179cb5db7b7e62fbe06babb8e95f7d0031326dc04a3a72eaefaa669eba4b07ad1270120aae1c807f642c92417d24cab5c5e1051200c9ee431
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/223778/cdc_223778_DS1.pdf
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