Is it worth being attached to the leader? Transformational leadership and various types of performance: The mediating role of leader as attachment figure

Lisá, Elena; Greškovičová, Katarína

doi:10.1007/s12144-022-03942-x

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“…The positive model of others in the form of a relationship with the leader supports the positive model of others in the form of colleagues. When workers perceive the leader as an attachment figure, they tend to cooperate more with other teammates Lisá & Greškovičová, 2022).…”

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“…Mental representations of attachment models can overlap, but they are still different (Dugan et al, 2022;Klohnen et al, 2005;Lisá & Greškovičová, 2022;Overall et al, 2003). In the work context, the domain-specific models of work relationships are different from other domain models (Greškovičová & Lisá, 2023).…”

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Attachment in the Workplace Questionnaire – First Psychometric Results

Lisá,

Greškovičová

2023

Psychológia Práce a Organizácie 2023

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The diversity of emotional relationships has resulted in supplementing models of attachment with specific relationship ties that relate to individual domains of interpersonal relationships in human life. We focused on verifying the construct validity of the Attachment in the workplace questionnaire. The sample of our study consisted of 829 participants. The convenient selection was made online. The self-assessment Attachment in the Workplace Questionnaire consisted of 13 questions. Validation of dimensionality through EFA showed three factors: secure attachment to the leader (5 items), anxious attachment to the leader and to colleagues (4 items), and avoidant attachment to colleagues (4 items). The dimensions of the questionnaire showed values of internal consistency above 0.8. The three-factor model showed a good fit to the data. Secure attachment to the leader did not correlate with anxious attachment to colleagues and to the leader. Secure attachment to the leader was moderately significantly related to avoidant attachment to colleagues. Anxious and avoidant attachment dimensions were unrelated. Women scored higher in anxious attachment style and lower in avoidant and secure attachment styles. The results are specific to attachment in a work context where the objects of attachment are the supervisor and colleagues. In further research, we plan to verify the convergent validity of the questionnaire.

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Attachment in the Workplace Questionnaire – First Psychometric Results

Lisá,

Greškovičová

2023

Psychológia Práce a Organizácie 2023

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“…Drawing on the leadership-followership literature, managers are key factors in predicting subordinates' behavior and individual leadership emergence [12]. For instance, supervisors can affect employees' behavior via charisma, using inspirational motivation, and shaping their goal orientations [13,14]. Furthermore, prior research has also suggested that although leadership emergence is often driven by individual differences (e.g., gender [15]; self-efficacy [16]; personality [17]; competency [18] and intelligence [19]), managers, as an important contextual factor, play a critical role in facilitating it [20].…”

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How Distributed Leadership Fosters Individual Leadership Emergence: The Mediating Role of Empowerment Role Identity and Enacted Leader Identity

Lyu

Chen

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Departing from past research on managers’ influence on employees’ informal leadership emergence, we explore the mechanism of how distributed leadership enhances individual leadership emergence from a cognitive perspective. Drawing upon the leadership identity construction theory and role identity theory, we theoretically developed and empirically tested a serial mediation model. It examines how distributed leadership promotes employees’ leadership emergence via individual empowerment role identity and enacted leader identity. Using a three-wave field survey from 496 subordinate–supervisor dyads (82 supervisors and 496 employees) in China, we found that empowerment role identity and enacted leader identity serially mediate the association between distributed leadership and employees’ leadership emergence. The results demonstrate the leadership identity construction process of employees’ leadership emergence under distributed leadership. The theoretical and practical implications of our findings are then discussed.

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“…Today, no one doubts that the application of adult attachment to the organizational context has value and sense. Many studies explored adult attachment in relation to organizational behavior and outcomes at the individual, team, and/or organizational levels ( Davidovitz et al, 2007 ; Harms, 2011 ; Yip et al, 2017 ; Grady et al, 2019 ; Lisá and Greškovičová, 2022 ). Despite the emerging option of transferring adult attachment to the organizational setting, we need to face serious questions and possibly doubts.…”

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“…Regarding mental illness, attachment to the leader is related to followers’ burnout ( Lavy, 2014 ). Furthermore, the transformational leader as an attachment figure also promoted performance at the team level ( Lisá and Greškovičová, 2022 ). However, not only is leadership style important for organizational, group, and follower outcomes, but the personality of leaders is also relevant ( Antonakis et al, 2012 ; Blake et al, 2022 ).…”

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Beyond the global attachment model: domain- and relationship-specific attachment models at work and their functions

Greškovičová

Lisá

2023

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionSince prior research has shown the importance of specific attachment models, we wanted to explore specific adult attachments (colleagues, leader, and workplace) in the working setting. The study aimed to investigate the position of specific adult attachments in the attachment hierarchy and their associations with various organizational variables. Finally, we assumed that dimensions of the colleagues-domain attachment model would cluster into attachment types at work, according to secure, preoccupied, and avoidant attachment orientations.MethodsWe carried out cross-sectional time-lagged research design. The sample consisted of 1,352 participants based on convenience and voluntary sampling procedures. Participants aged 18–78 worked in various work teams and positions. The battery consisted of the Adult Attachment in the Workplace Questionnaire, the Workplace Attachment Styles Questionnaire, the Scale of Belonging to the Organization, the Leader as Security Provider Scale, the shortened Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised Questionnaire, the Czech Leadership Questionnaire, the Citizenship Organizational Behavior Questionnaire, the General Work Performance questionnaire, the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale. Data were analyzed in JASP 0.16.3 and IBM SPSS Statistics 22. Among other statistical methods, we performed factor analysis and two-step cluster analysis. The alpha level for statistical testing was set to 0.05.ResultsThe results show that the work-specific attachment models differ from the romantic domain attachment model. Moreover, the work-specific attachment models also differ among themselves. Depending on the attachment to colleagues, it is possible to distinguish two attachment orientations (secure and insecure) among working adults. These two types differ in all the variables studied (relationships with colleagues, romantic partners, belonging to people and place, and performance).ConclusionThe study advances our knowledge of attachment working models and their application in the organizational context. We confirmed hierarchical attachment mental presentations and show the distinction in attachment working models at work. Colleagues and leaders form two separate domains within the workplace. Attachment to a leader is associated with the leadership style and secure workplace attachment. Attachment to colleagues might be more important in insecure workplace attachment and insecure belonging. Fostering secure attachment at work might bring together more positive outcomes for the company regarding performance and relationships at work.

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Is it worth being attached to the leader? Transformational leadership and various types of performance: The mediating role of leader as attachment figure

Cited by 5 publications

References 62 publications

Attachment in the Workplace Questionnaire – First Psychometric Results

Attachment in the Workplace Questionnaire – First Psychometric Results

How Distributed Leadership Fosters Individual Leadership Emergence: The Mediating Role of Empowerment Role Identity and Enacted Leader Identity

Beyond the global attachment model: domain- and relationship-specific attachment models at work and their functions

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