The contagious leader: impact of the leader's mood on the mood of group members, group affective tone, and group processes.

By Thomas Sy, Stéphane Côté, R. Saavedra. Journal of Applied Psychology, 2005

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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How Does Leader Humility Influence Team Performance? Exploring the Mechanisms of Contagion and Collective Promotion Focus (2016, positive): “This social modeling idea fits with evidence that followers emulate leaders ’ emotions (Johnson, 2009; Sy, Cote, & Saavedra, 2005) and behaviors (Fast & Tiedens, 2010; Visser, van Knippenberg, van Kleef, & Wisse, 2013).”
Shared Authentic Leadership and New Venture Performance (2012, background): “Empirical evidence supporting the broadening hypothesis has been reported by several team-level studies; for instance, positive affect tone has been shown to have beneficial effects on teams’ persistence, effort, and both task performance and prosocial behavior (Barsade & Gibson, 2007; J. M. George,”
Emotional influence at work: Take it EASI (2012, neutral): “In another study, Sy, Côté, and Saavedra (2005) invited groups of participants to the lab, and randomly selected one of them to play the role of leader.”
How leaders' emotional displays shape followers' organizational citizenship behavior (2015, background): “In another study, Sy, Côté, and Saavedra (2005) invited groups of participants to the lab, and randomly selected one groupmember as the leader.”
Towards a model of work engagement (2008, background): “In a similar vein, Sy et al. (2005) found that when leaders were in a positive (vs. negative) mood, individual team members experienced more positive and less negative mood.”
The ability to influence others via emotion displays (2011, background): “…of emotions includes findings that subordinates’ emotions mediate the effect of leaders’ emotions on the degree of coordination among subordinates (Sy et al., 2005) and the task performance of teams composed of members with reduced epistemic motivation (defined as the willingness to expend an…”