How and When Does Visionary Leadership Promote Followers’ Taking Charge? The Roles of Inclusion of Leader in Self and Future Orientation

Abstract

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between visionary leadership and taking charge. The authors also aim to test the mediating effects of employee inclusion of leader in self and the moderating effects of future orientation. Methods This paper tests the theoretical model across a multisource, time-lagged field study with 234 leader-follower dyads as data. SPSS 25.0, PROCESS 3.4 macro and Mplus8.3 were used to test the theoretical hypotheses. Results We found that visionary leadership stimulates followers to include leaders in self, which in turn enhances their taking charge. Additionally, the relationship between visionary leadership and follower include of leader in self is strengthened by followers’ future orientation. Furthermore, the mediation effect of follower include leader in self between visionary leadership and followers’ taking charge is established only when followers’ future orientation is high. Conclusion Based on self-expansion theory, this study explained how and when the effectiveness of visionary leadership may be optimized from a follower-centric perspective. These results contribute to the visionary leadership and self-expansion literature by introducing inclusion of leader in self as an underlying mechanism and future orientation as a boundary condition.

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“…Second, this study strengthens the explanatory power of cognitive-affective personality system theory and social information processing theory in the field of visionary leadership research, visionary leadership in previous studies has been explored mainly based on theoretical perspectives such as stakeholder theory, and self-expansion theory (Nwachukwu et al. , 2017; Liu et al. , 2022).…”

“…Second, this study strengthens the explanatory power of cognitive-affective personality system theory and social information processing theory in the field of visionary leadership research, visionary leadership in previous studies has been explored mainly based on theoretical perspectives such as stakeholder theory, and self-expansion theory (Nwachukwu et al, 2017;Liu et al, 2022). This study combined cognitive-affective personality system theory and social information processing theory as the theoretical framework to construct an overall logic among the variables.…”

“…Visionary leadership focuses on achieving a "shared vision". By conveying a picture of bright future (Kim et al, 2023), these leaders encourage the development of a shared vision, and encourage subordinates to strive for the realization of the organizational vision (Liu et al, 2022) to achieve the long-term development of the enterprises (Mascareño et al, 2020). Reviewing previous studies, we find that scholars have generally focused on the effectiveness and positive effects of visionary leadership, such as increasing employees' psychological resilience and work motivation (Li et al, 2023;Kehr et al, 2022), promoting employees' creativity and following behavior (Guan et al, 2023), enhancing organizational performance and organizational effectiveness, etc.…”

“…By conveying a picture of bright future (Kim et al. , 2023), these leaders encourage the development of a shared vision, and encourage subordinates to strive for the realization of the organizational vision (Liu et al. , 2022) to achieve the long-term development of the enterprises (Mascareño et al.…”

A Mediation Model of the Effect of Visionary Leadership on Teachers’ Organizational Citizenship Behavior

“…Prior studies have demonstrated that visionary leadership affects different domains, such as creativity (Chen & Yuan, 2021;Makhrus et al, 2022), and stimulates followers to pursue the same vision (Kehr et al, 2022). It also increases adherents' ability to take charge (Liu et al, 2022) and to engage in citizenship behavior (Ismail, Irani, & Kertechian, 2022;Luo et al, 2021). In addition, it improves followers' job outcomes (AlKayid et al, 2022;Zhou et al, 2018) and job performance (Esfarjani et al, 2020;Kurniadi et al, 2020).…”