Charisma under Crisis: Presidential Leadership, Rhetoric, and Media Responses Before and After the September 11th Terrorist Attacks

By Michelle C. Bligh, Jeffrey C. Kohles, J. Meindl. 2004

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Subfields: Communication, Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

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An Affective Events Model of Charismatic Leadership Behavior: A Review, Theoretical Integration, and Research Agenda (2009, methodology): “Similarly, Bligh, Kohles, and Meindl (2004) found President George W. Bush’s rhetorical language to contain more charismatic elements after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; and Pillai (1996) found group members to rate their leaders as more charismatic in experimentally induced crisis…”
Louis Working Paper Series Beyond the Numbers : An Analysis of Optimistic and Pessimistic Language in Earnings Press Releases (2006, background): “In particular, the program is designed to identify subtle aspects of language that even the trained human eye might not readily perceive (Bligh et al. 2004) and thus, the measures of optimistic and pessimistic language obtained are likely to be better calibrated than those subjectively determined by”
Charisma: An Ill-Defined and Ill-Measured Gift (2016, background): “At this time, we know more about moderators including leader distance (Shamir 1995), crisis (Bligh et al 2004), leader prototypicality (Van Knippenberg & Van Knippenberg 2005), leader confidence (De Cremer & Van Knippenberg 2004), and attributional ambiguity (Jacquart & Antonakis 2015), among…”
Presidential Charismatic Leadership: Exploring the Rhetoric of Social Change (2008, methodology): “…could partially be accomplished by using high levels of inclusive language (e.g., “we”, “us”; Fiol et al., 1999), and also portraying a sense of similarity with followers (Bligh et al., 2004a; Fiol et al., 1999; Shamir et al., 1994) in order to build a highly inclusive social identity (Bull, 2000).”
Moral Disengagement in Processes of Organizational Corruption (2008, background): “The ability to prioritize organizational goals above all other concerns has been shown to be an enormously valued leadership skills, especially in times of crisis or uncertainty (Bligh et al., 2004).”
Construct Validation Using Computer-Aided Text Analysis (CATA) (2010, methodology): “For example, the predefined dictionaries in the DICTION software program have been used to examine the language of charismatic leadership (e.g., Bligh, Kohles, & Meindl, 2004a, 2004b).”
The importance of self‐ and shared leadership in team based knowledge work: A meso‐level model of leadership dynamics (2006, background): “…a shift toward conceptualizing leadership less as the behaviors and characteristics of individuals and more as a social process that is embedded in a context of team dynamics and social interaction (e.g. Bligh and Meindl, 2004; Bligh et al., 2004; Pearce and Conger, 2003; Shamir and Howell, 1999).”