When the Romance is Over: Follower Perspectives of Aversive Leadership
By Michelle C. Bligh, Jeffrey C. Kohles, C. Pearce, Joseph E. Justin, J. Stovall. 2007
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While leadership is indisputably one of the most pervasive topics in our society, the vast majority of existing research has focused on leadership as a positive force. Taking a follower-centric approach to the study of leadership, we integrate research on the Romance of Leadership and the dark side of leadership by examining followers’ perceptions of aversive leadership in the context of public high schools. Although Meindl, Ehrlich, and Dukerich (1985) demonstrated that the Romance of Leadership also includes the overattribution of negative outcomes to leaders, subsequent research has failed to explore the implications of this potentially darker side of romanticizing leaders. Specifically, we exam ine perceptions of principals’ aversive leadership and traditional affective, behavioral, and performance outcomes of followers in a sample of 342 dyads. Followers assessed their principals’ leadership behaviors and self-rated their levels of job satisfaction, self-efficacy, and resistance, while principals assessed their followers’ citizenship behaviors, complaining behaviors, and job performance. Results show that perceptions of aversive leadership
Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology
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- Destructive Leadership: A Critique of Leader-Centric Perspectives and Toward a More Holistic Definition (2016, background): “…Involves leader behaviors that primarily rely on coercive power, including the use of threats, intimidation, and reprimands Leader behavior No No Bligh et al. (2007) and Pearce and Sims (2002) Destructive Leadership: A Critique of Leader-Centric Perspectives… 631 problems discussed above and…”
- Bad Apples, Bad Barrels, and Broken Followers? An Empirical Examination of Contextual Influences on Follower Perceptions and Reactions to Aversive Leadership (2011, background): “In one of the first known studies to integrate the two, Bligh et al. (2007) asked high school teachers (followers) to assess their principals’ (leaders) leadership behaviors and self rate their levels of job satisfaction, selfefficacy, and resistance.”