Contextual constraints on prototype generation and their multilevel consequences for leadership perceptions

Supervisors and teachers’ influence on expectations on empowering leadership among students in vocational education and training

“…Yukl 2013). Social cognitive research has demonstrated how schemas and implicit theories significantly influence judgements, choices, and behaviours (Ayman and Chemers 1983;Engle and Lord 1997;Fiske and Taylor 2013;Greenwald et al 2009;Hunt et al 1990;Lord et al 2001;Nye and Forsyth 1991;Porr and Fields 2006;Rush and Russell 1988;Ajzen 1991).…”

Implicit Leadership Theories: Think Leader, Think Effective?

“…The present results underline the importance of being very careful with the specific questions we are asking in implicit leadership theories studies. They most certainly work as constraints in sense of Lord et al (2001) and may activate quite different aspects of our leadership beliefs.…”

Romance of leadership and management decision making

“…Homogeneity versus heterogeneity with regard to romance of leadership may emerge as an important factor. For a more differentiated perspective Social Identity Theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1986) proposes that cognitive structures representing leadership are not static, but will be continually rebuilt as new information is available or the tasks and the context changes (Hogg, 2001;Lord, Brown, Harvey, & Hall, 2001;Lord & Emrich, 2001). Within the theoretical frame of Social Identity Theory, Haslam and Platow (2001) argue that prototypicality for the characteristics of a group explains the attribution and emergence of leadership.…”