The Impact of Fitness on Senior Leadership

McCowen, Anita H

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“…Olson et al . (2018) found that overweight or obese individuals were frequently stereotyped as being lazy, lacking in competence and having issues in self-control, which was consistent with prior research demonstrating senior leaders at the US Army War College associated overweight appearance as indicative of poor leadership qualities (McCowen, 2003). Even the quality of voice pitch was found to influence the assessment of potential leadership and thus possibly affect leader emergence (Klofstad et al.…”

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The impact of personal reputation on leader emergence in autonomous work teams: theoretical considerations for future research

Horwitz

2023

EJMS

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PurposeResearch has demonstrated that varying degrees and combinations of individual traits, behaviors and characteristics influence the emergence of leaders in teams. While existing models have shown that such variables affect leader choice independently and interactively, the overall findings suggest that there is still a lack of research on a potentially significant factor, the impact of personal reputation on leader selection in autonomous work teams (AWTs), an increasingly ubiquitous team practice in organizations. This preliminary review thus aims to offer a general overview of personal reputation and its effects on leader emergence in the context of AWTs.Design/methodology/approachBy surveying extant literature on team leader emergence, this review has identified that the potential impact of personal reputation on leader selection in teams is significant yet largely ignored.FindingsModels of leader emergence in teams should incorporate the realistic assumption that teams formed in organizations are often comprised of individuals who have information on others either directly or indirectly. Personal reputation based on an individual’s history thus moderates how one’s behaviors or traits exhibited become contextualized in the overall assessment of leader desirability and selection in teams.Research limitations/implicationsBased on a review of existing research on leadership emergence and personal reputation, this work contends that the external validity and predictive value of leader emergence models would greatly benefit from the inclusion of employee reputations as a moderating variable in the future assessment of the leader emergence process in AWTs.Practical implicationsBy designing models that explain the potential effects of personal reputations on leader emergence in self-managed teams, team members and managers can be better elucidated and ultimately improve their understanding of the process of the evaluation and selection of team leaders.Originality/valueDespite the prolific research on leader emergence, there is still a paucity of studies examining personal reputational effects on leader selection, especially in the context of AWTs. This work is the first review piece calling for the inclusion of personal reputation, a substantive factor overlooked and excluded in previous models, to enhance the current understanding of leader emergence in AWTs.

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The impact of personal reputation on leader emergence in autonomous work teams: theoretical considerations for future research

Horwitz

2023

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“…This enables commanders and leaders to bring their personal biases into action. For example, senior leaders at the US Army War College have been shown to associate overweight appearance with poor leadership skills, lack of self-discipline, and low ability to mentor subordinates (McCowen, 2003). Therefore, service members with overweight might be negatively evaluated by leaders in domains unrelated to physical fitness.…”

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Bias and discrimination against men with overweight in the military

Christian

Parekh

Koritzky

2020

Health Psychology Open

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Research on weight-bias against men and/or in the military is scarce. Such a bias might cause some military members, who are otherwise fit to perform their duties, to suffer from discrimination and undue stress. We showed military personnel a picture of a soldier who had either normal weight or overweight. In both conditions, the description of the soldier stated that his physical fitness and job-related skills were good. Nonetheless, the soldier’s suitability for promotion was rated lower in the overweight condition. These findings improve our understanding of the impact of bias on the mental and physical health of men with overweight.

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The Impact of Fitness on Senior Leadership

Cited by 2 publications

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The impact of personal reputation on leader emergence in autonomous work teams: theoretical considerations for future research

The impact of personal reputation on leader emergence in autonomous work teams: theoretical considerations for future research

Bias and discrimination against men with overweight in the military

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