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Professor Olga Epitropaki's Outputs (68)

How elections shape perceptions of ideal leadership. (2024)
Journal Article
Masters-Waage, T. C., Bastardoz, N., Narayanan, J., & Epitropaki, O. (online). How elections shape perceptions of ideal leadership. American Psychologist, https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001413

Individuals hold internal leadership representations, termed leadership prototypes. We examined how these prototypes changed in reaction to the 2020 U.S. presidential election. A sample of Republicans ( = 200), Democrats ( = 200), and individuals w... Read More about How elections shape perceptions of ideal leadership..

‘Distant but close’: Leadership behaviours, psychological distance, employee coping and effectiveness in remote work contexts (2024)
Journal Article
Marstand, A. F., Epitropaki, O., & Kapoutsis, I. (online). ‘Distant but close’: Leadership behaviours, psychological distance, employee coping and effectiveness in remote work contexts. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12544

Drawing on construal level and conservation of resources theories, our paper focuses on the psychological distance employees experience from their manager in remote work contexts. We specifically examine the role of three leadership behaviours (initi... Read More about ‘Distant but close’: Leadership behaviours, psychological distance, employee coping and effectiveness in remote work contexts.

Becoming a leader with clipped wings: The role of early-career unemployment scarring on future leadership role occupancy (2024)
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Epitropaki, O., & Avramidis, P. (2024). Becoming a leader with clipped wings: The role of early-career unemployment scarring on future leadership role occupancy. The Leadership Quarterly, 35(4), Article 101786. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2024.101786

Whereas the scarring effects of unemployment on future income, health and well-being are well-documented, little is known about its potential role in future leadership emergence and development. Using data from two cohorts of the National Longitudina... Read More about Becoming a leader with clipped wings: The role of early-career unemployment scarring on future leadership role occupancy.

Reluctance to lead: Conceptualization and contextualization (2024)
Journal Article
Aycan, Z., Özbilgin, M., Moraligil, B., & Epitropaki, O. (2024). Reluctance to lead: Conceptualization and contextualization. European Management Journal, 42(4), 437-444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2024.02.005

Recent studies indicate a potential trend of waning enthusiasm for leadership positions. This increasing trend of avoiding leadership roles has prompted a new area of research, concentrating on agentic perspectives in leader emergence and self-select... Read More about Reluctance to lead: Conceptualization and contextualization.

Political leaders' identity leadership and civic citizenship behavior: The mediating role of trust in fellow citizens and the moderating role of economic inequality (2024)
Journal Article
Monzani, L., Bibic, K., Haslam, S. A., Kerschreiter, R., Wilson Lemoine, J. E., Steffens, N. K., Akfirat, S. A., Ballada, C. J. A., Bazarov, T., Aruta, J. J. B. R., Avanzi, L., Bunjak, A., Černe, M., Edelmann, C. M., Epitropaki, O., Fransen, K., García‐Ael, C., Giessner, S., Gleibs, I., Godlewska‐Werner, D., …van Dick, R. (online). Political leaders' identity leadership and civic citizenship behavior: The mediating role of trust in fellow citizens and the moderating role of economic inequality. Political Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12952

Identity leadership captures leaders efforts to create and promote a sense of shared group membership (i.e., a sense of “we” and of “us”) among followers. The present research report tests this claim by drawing on data from 26 countries that are part... Read More about Political leaders' identity leadership and civic citizenship behavior: The mediating role of trust in fellow citizens and the moderating role of economic inequality.

The SAGE Handbook of Leadership (2023)
Book
Schedlitzki, D., Larsson, M., Carroll, B., Bligh, M. C., & Epitropaki, O. (2023). The SAGE Handbook of Leadership. (Second Edition). SAGE Publications

Identity Leadership, Employee Burnout and the Mediating Role of Team Identification: Evidence from the Global Identity Leadership Development Project (2021)
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van Dick, R., Cordes, B. L., Lemoine, J. E., Steffens, N. K., Haslam, S. A., Akfirat, S. A., Ballada, C. J. A., Bazarov, T., Aruta, J. J. B. R., Avanzi, L., Bodla, A. A., Bunjak, A., Černe, M., Dumont, K. B., Edelmann, C. M., Epitropaki, O., Fransen, K., García-Ael, C., Giessner, S., Gleibs, I. H., …Kerschreiter, R. (2021). Identity Leadership, Employee Burnout and the Mediating Role of Team Identification: Evidence from the Global Identity Leadership Development Project. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(22), Article 12081. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182212081

Do leaders who build a sense of shared social identity in their teams thereby protect them from the adverse effects of workplace stress? This is a question that the present paper explores by testing the hypothesis that identity leadership contributes... Read More about Identity Leadership, Employee Burnout and the Mediating Role of Team Identification: Evidence from the Global Identity Leadership Development Project.

Ethical Leadership and Ethical Voice: The Mediating Mechanisms of Value Internalization and Integrity Identity (2021)
Journal Article
Zheng, Y., Epitropaki, O., Graham, L., & Caveney, N. (2022). Ethical Leadership and Ethical Voice: The Mediating Mechanisms of Value Internalization and Integrity Identity. Journal of Management, 48(4), 973-1002. https://doi.org/10.1177/2f01492063211002611

Drawing upon self-concept and social-information processing perspectives, we theorize and test a model linking ethical leadership with ethical voice via ethical value internalization and integrity identity. In two field studies (N = 972 and N = 765,... Read More about Ethical Leadership and Ethical Voice: The Mediating Mechanisms of Value Internalization and Integrity Identity.

Leader and Organizational Behavioral Integrity and Follower Behavioral Outcomes: The Role of Identification Processes (2021)
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Ete, Z., Epitropaki, O., Zhou, Q., & Graham, L. (2022). Leader and Organizational Behavioral Integrity and Follower Behavioral Outcomes: The Role of Identification Processes. Journal of Business Ethics, 176(4), 741-760. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-020-04728-6

This paper investigates the concept of behavioral integrity from three important foci in organizational settings: i.e., leader, organization and follower. Drawing from theories of behavioral integrity, social learning and social identity, we examine... Read More about Leader and Organizational Behavioral Integrity and Follower Behavioral Outcomes: The Role of Identification Processes.

A two-nation investigation of Leadership Self-perceptions and Motivation to Lead in early adulthood: The moderating role of Gender and Socio-economic Status (2021)
Journal Article
Hoyland, T., Psychogios, A., Epitropaki, O., Damiani, J., Mukhuty, S., & Priestnall, C. (2021). A two-nation investigation of Leadership Self-perceptions and Motivation to Lead in early adulthood: The moderating role of Gender and Socio-economic Status. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 42(2), 289-315. https://doi.org/10.1108/lodj-03-2020-0112

Purpose: Drawing on social-cognitive and motivational literature of leadership, the present study examines the influence of young adults’ self-perceptions of leadership on their leadership self-efficacy and motivation to lead in their future career.... Read More about A two-nation investigation of Leadership Self-perceptions and Motivation to Lead in early adulthood: The moderating role of Gender and Socio-economic Status.

What are the career implications of ‘seeing eye to eye’? Examining the role of leader-member exchange (LMX) agreement on employability and career outcomes (2020)
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Epitropaki, O., Marstand, A. F., van der Heijden, B., Bozionelos, N., Mylonopoulos, N., van der Heijde, C. M., Scholarios, D., Mikkelsen, A., Marzec, I., Jędrzejowicz, P., & Group, T. I. (2021). What are the career implications of ‘seeing eye to eye’? Examining the role of leader-member exchange (LMX) agreement on employability and career outcomes. Personnel Psychology, 74(4), 799-830. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12432

Are there career benefits to leaders and followers agreeing about the quality of their leader‐member exchange (LMX) relationship? Is LMX disagreement always detrimental for a follower's career? Can the examination of LMX agreement as a substantive va... Read More about What are the career implications of ‘seeing eye to eye’? Examining the role of leader-member exchange (LMX) agreement on employability and career outcomes.

Leader and Organizational Identification and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: Examining Cross-Lagged Relationships and the Moderating Role of Collective Identity Orientation (2020)
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Marstand, A., Epitropaki, O., Van Knippenberg, D., & Martin, R. (2021). Leader and Organizational Identification and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: Examining Cross-Lagged Relationships and the Moderating Role of Collective Identity Orientation. Human Relations, 74(10), 1716-1745. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726720938118

People may identify with multiple entities at work, but how are different foci of identification related and how do they influence extra-role work behaviors? Drawing from social identity theory, our article examines: (a) the potential bidirectional r... Read More about Leader and Organizational Identification and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: Examining Cross-Lagged Relationships and the Moderating Role of Collective Identity Orientation.

Leader-follower transgressions, relationship repair strategies and outcomes: A state-of-the-science review and a way forward (2020)
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Epitropaki, O., Radulovic, A., Ete, Z., Thomas, G., & Martin, R. (2020). Leader-follower transgressions, relationship repair strategies and outcomes: A state-of-the-science review and a way forward. The Leadership Quarterly, 31(1), Article 101376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.101376

A growing body of literature has focused on transgressions in the workplace and more recently, with respect to leader-follower relationships. Despite the important implications of leader and follower transgressions and relationship repair for work ou... Read More about Leader-follower transgressions, relationship repair strategies and outcomes: A state-of-the-science review and a way forward.

In pursuit of causality in leadership training research: A review and pragmatic recommendations (2020)
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Martin, R., Hughes, D., Epitropaki, O., & Thomas, G. (2021). In pursuit of causality in leadership training research: A review and pragmatic recommendations. The Leadership Quarterly, 32(5), Article 101375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.101375

Although research shows a reliable association between leadership training and positive organizational outcomes, a range of research design issues mean we do not know to what degree the former causes the later. Accordingly, the paper has two main aim... Read More about In pursuit of causality in leadership training research: A review and pragmatic recommendations.

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.

Grey zones in leadership and safety. Comment on Katz-Navon, Kark and Delegach (2019) (2019)
Journal Article
Epitropaki, O., & Turner, N. (2020). Grey zones in leadership and safety. Comment on Katz-Navon, Kark and Delegach (2019). Academy of Management Discoveries, 6(1), 142-145. https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2019.0119

The paper provides a commentary on Katz-Navon, Kark, and Delegach's (2019: in press) Academy of Management Discoveries paper titled: "Trapped in the middle: Challenging the linear approach to the relationship between leadership and safety".