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The Romance of Leadership scale and causal attributions (2010)
Journal Article
Schyns, B., & Hansbrough, T. (2012). The Romance of Leadership scale and causal attributions. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 42(8), 1870-1886. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.2012.00922.x

Two empirical studies examined the relationship between individual-level Romance of Leadership and causal attributions to test and extend the construct validity of the Romance of Leadership Scale. As anticipated, Romance of Leadership significantly p... Read More about The Romance of Leadership scale and causal attributions.

Followers’ personality and the perception of transformational leadership: Further evidence for the similarity hypothesis (2010)
Journal Article
Felfe, J., & Schyns, B. (2010). Followers’ personality and the perception of transformational leadership: Further evidence for the similarity hypothesis. British Journal of Management, 21(2), 393-410. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8551.2009.00649.x

Managers and supervisors are thought to affect their followers' attitudes and behaviour. Within leadership research, behaviour of leaders and managers is usually considered as the independent variable whilst followers' reactions are considered the de... Read More about Followers’ personality and the perception of transformational leadership: Further evidence for the similarity hypothesis.

On the job and co-worker commitment of Dutch agency workers and permanent employees (2010)
Journal Article
Torka, N., & Schyns, B. (2010). On the job and co-worker commitment of Dutch agency workers and permanent employees. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 21(8), 1307-1322. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2010.483858

This article explores the relationship between employment status (agency workers vs. permanent employees) and affective and normative job and co-worker commitment. Our study was conducted on employees from four metal companies in the Netherlands. As... Read More about On the job and co-worker commitment of Dutch agency workers and permanent employees.

Understanding the relationship between span of control and subordinate consensus in leader-member exchange (2010)
Journal Article
Schyns, B., Maslyn, J., & Weibler, J. (2010). Understanding the relationship between span of control and subordinate consensus in leader-member exchange. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 19(3), 388-406. https://doi.org/10.1080/13594320903146485

Leader-member exchange (LMX) refers to the relationship quality a leader shares with members of his or her work group, typically described as differentiation in quality within the group. Numerous empirical studies demonstrate that the quality of this... Read More about Understanding the relationship between span of control and subordinate consensus in leader-member exchange.

Self-initiated expatriation: Implications for HRM (2010)
Journal Article
Howe-Walsh, L., & Schyns, B. (2010). Self-initiated expatriation: Implications for HRM. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 21(2), 260-273. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585190903509571

The decision of an employee to move from their home country in order to work in another country/culture will create a myriad of issues for the employees to face. Every year, many employees take the decision to migrate. So far the literature has focus... Read More about Self-initiated expatriation: Implications for HRM.

Critique and Review of Leader-Member Exchange Theory: Issues of Agreement, Consensus, and Excellence (2010)
Journal Article
Schyns, B., & Day, D. (2010). Critique and Review of Leader-Member Exchange Theory: Issues of Agreement, Consensus, and Excellence. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 19(1), 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1080/13594320903024922

The relationship quality that develops between leaders and those designated as followers is of longstanding interest to researchers and practitioners. The purpose of the present article is to review the more recent developments in the field of leader... Read More about Critique and Review of Leader-Member Exchange Theory: Issues of Agreement, Consensus, and Excellence.

Leadership attributes valence in self-concept and occupational self-efficacy (2010)
Journal Article
Schyns, B., & Sczesny, S. (2010). Leadership attributes valence in self-concept and occupational self-efficacy. Career Development International, 15(1), 78-92. https://doi.org/10.1108/13620431011020907

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between leadership-relevant attributes and occupational self-efficacy in management students. It is assumed that leadership-relevant attributes are related to high self-efficacy belie... Read More about Leadership attributes valence in self-concept and occupational self-efficacy.

Group leadership climate and individual organizational commitment: A multi level analysis (2010)
Journal Article
Schyns, B., & van Veldhoven, M. (2010). Group leadership climate and individual organizational commitment: A multi level analysis. Journal of personnel psychology (Internet), 9(2), 57-68. https://doi.org/10.1027/1866-5888/a000005

Most research about the effects of leadership on employee work outcomes ignores the fact that the relationship between supervisor and employee is embedded within a group. In this article, we answer the questions what is the effect of group leadership... Read More about Group leadership climate and individual organizational commitment: A multi level analysis.

Direct participation quality and organisational commitment: The role of Leader-Member exchange (2010)
Journal Article
Torka, N., Schyns, B., & Looise, J. (2010). Direct participation quality and organisational commitment: The role of Leader-Member exchange. Employee Relations, 32(4), 418-434. https://doi.org/10.1108/01425451011051622

Purpose – The relationship between participation quality and commitment has received relatively limited attention in the industrial relations (IR) and human resource management (HRM) literature. This paper seeks to fill some of the gaps in prior rese... Read More about Direct participation quality and organisational commitment: The role of Leader-Member exchange.