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When vulnerable narcissists take the lead: The role of internal attribution of failure and shame for abusive supervision (2024)
Journal Article
Braun, S., Schyns, B., Zheng, Y., & Lord, R. G. (online). When vulnerable narcissists take the lead: The role of internal attribution of failure and shame for abusive supervision. Journal of Business Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05805-w

Research to date provides only limited insights into the processes of abusive supervision, a form of unethical leadership. Leaders' vulnerable narcissism is important to consider, as, according to the trifurcated model of narcissism, it combines enti... Read More about When vulnerable narcissists take the lead: The role of internal attribution of failure and shame for abusive supervision.

Deterrence Effects: The Role of Authoritarian Leadership in Controlling Employee Workplace Deviance (2020)
Journal Article
Zheng, Y., Huang, X., Graham, L., Redman, T., & Hu, S. (2020). Deterrence Effects: The Role of Authoritarian Leadership in Controlling Employee Workplace Deviance. Management and Organization Review, 16(2), 377-404. https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2019.50

Drawing upon two independent samples from mainland China, we propose and investigate the deterrence function of leadership behavior focused on control. We suggest that controlling leadership, specifically, authoritarian leadership, deters employees’... Read More about Deterrence Effects: The Role of Authoritarian Leadership in Controlling Employee Workplace Deviance.

A meta-analytic review of servant leadership consequences: The moderating roles of cultural factors (2019)
Journal Article
Zhang, Y., Zheng, Y., Zhang, L., Xu, S., Liu, X., & Chen, W. (2019). A meta-analytic review of servant leadership consequences: The moderating roles of cultural factors. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 38, 371-400. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-018-9639-z

The past decade has witnessed growing interests in empirically examining the effectiveness of servant leadership in management research. Our study reviews the literature on servant leadership and analyzes the relationship between servant leadership a... Read More about A meta-analytic review of servant leadership consequences: The moderating roles of cultural factors.

The Impact of Authoritarian Leadership on Ethical Voice: A Moderated Mediation Model of Felt Uncertainty and Leader Benevolence (2019)
Journal Article
Zheng, Y., Graham, L., Farh, J., & Huang, X. (2021). The Impact of Authoritarian Leadership on Ethical Voice: A Moderated Mediation Model of Felt Uncertainty and Leader Benevolence. Journal of Business Ethics, 170(1), 133-146. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04261-1

In a sample of 522 police officers and staff in an English police force, we investigated the role of authoritarian leadership in reducing the levels of employee ethical voice (i.e., employees discussing and speaking out opinions against unethical iss... Read More about The Impact of Authoritarian Leadership on Ethical Voice: A Moderated Mediation Model of Felt Uncertainty and Leader Benevolence.

Vulnerable narcissists in leadership? A bifactor model of narcissism and abusive supervision intent (2019)
Journal Article
Braun, S., Schyns, B., Zheng, Y., & Lord, R. (2019). Vulnerable narcissists in leadership? A bifactor model of narcissism and abusive supervision intent. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019(1), Article 11224. https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2019.160

Addressing the controversial debate about narcissism and its impact on organizations, this article pursues three main purposes: First, we aimed to assess the factorial structure of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI) in an applied organizatio... Read More about Vulnerable narcissists in leadership? A bifactor model of narcissism and abusive supervision intent.

The Impact of a Local Community Engagement Intervention on Residents’ Fear of Crime and Perceptions of the Police (2019)
Journal Article
Lockey, S., Graham, L., Redman, T., & Zheng, Y. (2019). The Impact of a Local Community Engagement Intervention on Residents’ Fear of Crime and Perceptions of the Police. International Journal of Police Science and Management, 21(3), 168-180. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461355719856039

Policy-makers have called for community engagement to be made central to police operations in England and Wales, yet little empirical investigation has been undertaken in this context to support its efficacy. This article uses a quasi-experimental re... Read More about The Impact of a Local Community Engagement Intervention on Residents’ Fear of Crime and Perceptions of the Police.

Service Leadership, Work Engagement and Service Performance: The Moderating Role of Leader Skills (2019)
Journal Article
Zheng, Y., Graham, L., Epitropaki, O., & Snape, E. (2020). Service Leadership, Work Engagement and Service Performance: The Moderating Role of Leader Skills. Group and Organization Management, 45(1), 43-74. https://doi.org/10.1177/1059601119851978

By using social learning theory, the Job Demands-Resources model and Idiosyncrasy credit theory, the present study casts additional light on the explanatory mechanisms underlying the effects of service leadership on service performance. We specifical... Read More about Service Leadership, Work Engagement and Service Performance: The Moderating Role of Leader Skills.

Work-to-non-work spillover: the impact of public service motivation and meaningfulness on outcomes in work and personal life domains (2019)
Journal Article
Zheng, Y., Wu, C., & Graham, L. (2020). Work-to-non-work spillover: the impact of public service motivation and meaningfulness on outcomes in work and personal life domains. Public Management Review, 22(4), 578-601. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2019.1601242

This study examines why, and when, public service motivation (PSM) has spillover effects from employees’ work lives into their personal lives. Drawing on a dual conceptualization of meaningfulness, we propose and examine the relationship of PSM with... Read More about Work-to-non-work spillover: the impact of public service motivation and meaningfulness on outcomes in work and personal life domains.