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Robert Lord's Outputs (155)

Rethinking authentic leadership: An alternative approach based on dynamic processes of active identity, self-regulation, and ironic processes of mental control (2024)
Journal Article
Bunjak, A., Lord, R. G., & Acton, B. P. (online). Rethinking authentic leadership: An alternative approach based on dynamic processes of active identity, self-regulation, and ironic processes of mental control. Journal of Management and Organization, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2024.69

Despite its popularity, authentic leadership remains enigmatic, with both advantages and disadvantages. The connection between authenticity (an internal process) and leadership (an external influence process) is complex. We introduce a theory that co... Read More about Rethinking authentic leadership: An alternative approach based on dynamic processes of active identity, self-regulation, and ironic processes of mental control.

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.

The effects of what you remember and what you know on leadership processes: how memory works, how we access what we know, and the role of identity levels (2024)
Book Chapter
Lord, R., Hall, R., Gatti, P., Zheng, J., & Morgan, R. (2024). The effects of what you remember and what you know on leadership processes: how memory works, how we access what we know, and the role of identity levels. In S. Braun, T. Keller Hansbrough, G. A. Ruark, R. J. Hall, R. G. Lord, & O. Epitropaki (Eds.), Navigating Leadership Evidence-Based Strategies for Leadership Development (130-154). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003377450

Memory provides the basis for learning leadership skills and for using them in appropriate contexts. However, for leaders to function effectively they must be able to access specific information in memory precisely when it is needed. What you access... Read More about The effects of what you remember and what you know on leadership processes: how memory works, how we access what we know, and the role of identity levels.

Leader Identity on the Fly: Intra-personal Leader Identity Dynamics in Response to Strong Events (2023)
Journal Article
Nieberle, K. W., Acton, B. P., Braun, S., Lord, R. G., & Fu, Y. A. (2024). Leader Identity on the Fly: Intra-personal Leader Identity Dynamics in Response to Strong Events. Journal of Business and Psychology, 39(3), 755-778. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-023-09906-7

Recent theorizing challenges the notion that leadership, and especially leader identities, is static. Yet, we know little about the dynamics that characterize how leader identities change within individuals across short periods of time. The current w... Read More about Leader Identity on the Fly: Intra-personal Leader Identity Dynamics in Response to Strong Events.

How objectifiers are granted power in the workplace (2023)
Journal Article
Zhang, B., Wisse, B., & Lord, R. G. (2023). How objectifiers are granted power in the workplace. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53(4), 681-702. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2930

Objectification often has profound negative consequences for its victims, yet we argue that objectification may have positive ancillary implications for the perpetrators. Drawing from system justification theory, we posit that, especially in organiza... Read More about How objectifiers are granted power in the workplace.

Modeling Identities in Context: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Leader-Follower Identities (2021)
Journal Article
Nieberle, K., Acton, B., Braun, S., & Lord, R. G. (2021). Modeling Identities in Context: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Leader-Follower Identities. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021(1), https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2021.13413abstract

Although leadership and followership processes are flexible and fluid, our theoretical and empirical knowledge of the short-term dynamics in individuals’ leadership and followership identities are limited. Building on a Dynamical Systems Perspective... Read More about Modeling Identities in Context: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Leader-Follower Identities.

How Leader and Follower Prototypical and Antitypical Attributes Influence Ratings of Transformational Leadership in an Extreme Context (2020)
Journal Article
Keng-Highberger, F., Avolio, B., Lord, R., Hannah, S., Schaubroek, J., & Kozlowski, S. (2022). How Leader and Follower Prototypical and Antitypical Attributes Influence Ratings of Transformational Leadership in an Extreme Context. Human Relations, 75(3), 441-474. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726720958040

Leadership is a process where leaders enact certain behaviors to influence followers. Yet, each follower may view the leader’s enactment differently, owing to differences in disposition and context. Here we examine leadership as a property attributed... Read More about How Leader and Follower Prototypical and Antitypical Attributes Influence Ratings of Transformational Leadership in an Extreme Context.

Do You Remember? Rater Memory Systems and Leadership Measurement (2020)
Journal Article
Keller Hansbrough, T., Lord, R. G., Schyns, B., Foti, R. J., Liden, R. C., & Acton, B. (2021). Do You Remember? Rater Memory Systems and Leadership Measurement. The Leadership Quarterly, 32(2), Article 101455. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2020.101455

Despite widespread concerns about the use of retrospective accounts of leader behavior and response tendencies associated with raters who tend rely on semantic memory, little attention has been devoted to developing methods that move measurement proc... Read More about Do You Remember? Rater Memory Systems and Leadership Measurement.

Implicit Leadership Theories, Implicit Followership Theories, and Dynamic Processing of Leadership Information (2019)
Journal Article
Lord, R., Epitropaki, O., Foti, R., & Hansbrough, T. (2020). Implicit Leadership Theories, Implicit Followership Theories, and Dynamic Processing of Leadership Information. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 7, 15.1-15.26. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-012119-045434

In this article we offer a comprehensive review of the theoretical underpinnings and existing empirical evidence in the Implicit Leadership and Implicit Follower Theories domain. After briefly touching upon the historical roots of information-process... Read More about Implicit Leadership Theories, Implicit Followership Theories, and Dynamic Processing of Leadership Information.

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.

Putting emergence back in leadership emergence: A dynamic, multilevel, process-oriented framework (2018)
Journal Article
Acton, B., Foti, R., Lord, R., & Gladfelter, J. (2019). Putting emergence back in leadership emergence: A dynamic, multilevel, process-oriented framework. The Leadership Quarterly, 30(1), 145-164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2018.07.002

The study of leadership emergence has increased substantially over the past few decades. However, due to a lack of integrative theory, we believe limited advancement has been made regarding the full process of leadership emergence. To address this co... Read More about Putting emergence back in leadership emergence: A dynamic, multilevel, process-oriented framework.

Career Boundarylessness and Career Success: A Review, Integration and Guide to Future Research (2018)
Journal Article
Guan, Y., Arthur, M., Khapova, S., Hall, R., & Lord, R. (2019). Career Boundarylessness and Career Success: A Review, Integration and Guide to Future Research. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 110(Part B), 390--402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2018.05.013

The concept of boundaryless careers characterizes emerging career patterns that are less dependent on traditional organizational career management. Based on an evidence-based review of literature on the relationship between career boundarylessness an... Read More about Career Boundarylessness and Career Success: A Review, Integration and Guide to Future Research.

Leadership in Applied Psychology: Three Waves of Theory and Research (2017)
Journal Article
Lord, R., Day, D., Zaccaro, S., Avolio, B., & Eagly, A. (2017). Leadership in Applied Psychology: Three Waves of Theory and Research. Journal of Applied Psychology, 102(3), 434-451. https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000089

Although in the early years of the Journal leadership research was rare and focused primarily on traits differentiating leaders from nonleaders, subsequent to World War II the research area developed in 3 major waves of conceptual, empirical, and met... Read More about Leadership in Applied Psychology: Three Waves of Theory and Research.

“Facing” leaders: Facial expression and leadership perception (2016)
Journal Article
Trichas, S., Schyns, B., Lord, R., & Hall, R. (2017). “Facing” leaders: Facial expression and leadership perception. The Leadership Quarterly, 28(2), 317-333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2016.10.013

This experimental study investigated the effect of a leader's expression of happy versus nervous emotions on subsequent perceptions of leadership and ratings of traits associated with implicit leadership theories (ILTs). Being fast and universally un... Read More about “Facing” leaders: Facial expression and leadership perception.

Leadership and followership identity processes: A multilevel review (2016)
Journal Article
Epitropaki, O., Kark, R., Mainemelis, C., & Lord, R. (2017). Leadership and followership identity processes: A multilevel review. The Leadership Quarterly, 28(1), 104-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2016.10.003

A growing body of leadership literature focuses on leader and follower identity dynamics, levels, processes of development and outcomes. Despite the importance of the phenomena, there has been surprisingly little effort to systematically review the w... Read More about Leadership and followership identity processes: A multilevel review.

Social-Cognitive, Relational, and Identity-Based Approaches to Leadership (2016)
Journal Article
Lord, R., Gatti, P., & Chui, S. (2016). Social-Cognitive, Relational, and Identity-Based Approaches to Leadership. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 136, 119-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2016.03.001

We review the leadership literature published in this journal during the 50 years since its inception. Our focus is on three major contributions to leadership theory – social-cognitive, leader–member exchange, and social identity theories – as well a... Read More about Social-Cognitive, Relational, and Identity-Based Approaches to Leadership.

A network analysis of leadership theory: the infancy of integration (2016)
Journal Article
Meuser, J., Gardner, W., Dinh, J., Hu, J., Liden, R., & Lord, R. (2016). A network analysis of leadership theory: the infancy of integration. Journal of Management, 42(5), 1374-1403. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206316647099

We investigated the status of leadership theory integration by reviewing 14 years of published research (2000 through 2013) in 10 top journals (864 articles). The authors of these articles examined 49 leadership approaches/theories, and in 293 articl... Read More about A network analysis of leadership theory: the infancy of integration.

Examining the Moral Grey Zone: The Role of Moral Disengagement, Authenticity, and Situational Strength in predicting Unethical Managerial Behaviour (2015)
Journal Article
Knoll, M., Lord, R., Petersen, L., & Weigelt, O. (2016). Examining the Moral Grey Zone: The Role of Moral Disengagement, Authenticity, and Situational Strength in predicting Unethical Managerial Behaviour. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 46(1), 65-78. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12353

In the business context, there is a broad spectrum of practices that potentially harm others, yet might benefit the organization. We examined the influence of individual and situational differences in predicting (un)ethical behavior in these moral gr... Read More about Examining the Moral Grey Zone: The Role of Moral Disengagement, Authenticity, and Situational Strength in predicting Unethical Managerial Behaviour.