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Robert Lord's Outputs (155)

Reconsidering the Accuracy of Follower Leadership Ratings (2014)
Journal Article
Keller Hansbrough, T., Lord, R., & Schyns, B. (2015). Reconsidering the Accuracy of Follower Leadership Ratings. The Leadership Quarterly, 26(2), 220-237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2014.11.006

Accurate behavioral measurement is essential to developing a science of leadership, yet accurate measurement has remained elusive. The use of follower reports of leader behavior creates challenges given that a large body of basic and applied research... Read More about Reconsidering the Accuracy of Follower Leadership Ratings.

A quantum approach to time and organizational change (2014)
Journal Article
Lord, R., Dinh, J., & Hoffman, E. (2015). A quantum approach to time and organizational change. Academy of Management Review, 40(2), 263-290. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2013.0273

Prevailing perspectives on time and change are often grounded in underlying assumptions regarding the forward-movement of time and the relative stability of attributes. In combination, these assumptions foster theories of organizational evolution as... Read More about A quantum approach to time and organizational change.

What have we learned that is critical in understanding leadership perceptions and leader performance relations? (2014)
Journal Article
Lord, R., & Dinh, J. (2014). What have we learned that is critical in understanding leadership perceptions and leader performance relations?. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 7(2), 158-177. https://doi.org/10.1111/iops.12127

In this article, we provide a brief review of the current and past research on leadership perceptions and performance. We then describe four principles that have emerged from many decades of research, which can provide new directions for future leade... Read More about What have we learned that is critical in understanding leadership perceptions and leader performance relations?.

An Image of Who We Might Become: Vision Communication, Possible Selves, and Vision Pursuit (2014)
Journal Article
Stam, D., Lord, R., van Knippenberg, D., & Wisse, B. (2014). An Image of Who We Might Become: Vision Communication, Possible Selves, and Vision Pursuit. Organization Science, 25(4), 1172-1194. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2013.0891

We propose a model of vision communication that emphasizes the mediating role of follower collective possible selves - that is, self-conception in terms of what the collective (team, organization) which one is a member of may become in the future tha... Read More about An Image of Who We Might Become: Vision Communication, Possible Selves, and Vision Pursuit.

Leadership theory and research in the new millennium: Current theoretical trends and changing perspectives (2013)
Journal Article
Dinh, J., Lord, R., Garnder, W., Meuser, J., Liden, R., & Hu, J. (2014). Leadership theory and research in the new millennium: Current theoretical trends and changing perspectives. The Leadership Quarterly, 25(1), 36-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2013.11.005

Scholarly research on the topic of leadership has witnessed a dramatic increase over the last decade, resulting in the development of diverse leadership theories. To take stock of established and developing theories since the beginning of the new mil... Read More about Leadership theory and research in the new millennium: Current theoretical trends and changing perspectives.

A taxonomy of event-level dimensions: implications for understanding leadership processes, behaviour and performance (2013)
Journal Article
Hoffman, E., & Lord, R. (2013). A taxonomy of event-level dimensions: implications for understanding leadership processes, behaviour and performance. The Leadership Quarterly, 24(4), 558-571. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2013.03.009

Leader actions and their impact on follower, group, and organizational outcomes tend to be investigated at the aggregate person level, which may result in confusion between perception and performance-based evaluations of effectiveness. We advocate an... Read More about A taxonomy of event-level dimensions: implications for understanding leadership processes, behaviour and performance.