Professor Birgit Schyns birgit.schyns@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Professor Birgit Schyns birgit.schyns@durham.ac.uk
Professor
R.E. Riggio
A. Farazmand
Editor
While leadership is often seen as what leaders do, more recent work in this area acknowledges that leadership is a process of interaction between different actors (i.e., leaders and followers) and the environment. This notion of a process of interaction leads straight to the question of what shapes this interaction. Why do leaders behave the way they do? Why do followers react the way they do? One way of looking into this question is to turn to implicit leadership theories. Implicit leadership theories (ILTs) are everyday theories that individuals hold about leaders in general (or ideal leaders). They are mental representations of leaders and influence how an individual acts toward leaders or as leaders based on these cognitive representations. These cognitive representations are similar to stereotypes, in that they are stored in memory and will be activated when the person meets an individual whose characteristics and behavior matches their implici ...
Schyns, B., & Riggio, R. (2016). Implicit Leadership Theories. In A. Farazmand (Ed.), Global encyclopedia of public administration, public policy, and governance (1-7). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2186-1
Acceptance Date | Nov 30, 2016 |
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Online Publication Date | May 12, 2016 |
Publication Date | May 12, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Jun 15, 2016 |
Publisher | Springer Verlag |
Pages | 1-7 |
Book Title | Global encyclopedia of public administration, public policy, and governance. |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2186-1 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1642323 |
Publisher URL | http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2186-1 |
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