The consequences of (not) seeing eye-to-eye about the past: The role of supervisor-team fit in past temporal focus for supervisors' leadership behaviorShow full item record
Title | The consequences of (not) seeing eye-to-eye about the past: The role of supervisor-team fit in past temporal focus for supervisors' leadership behavior |
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Author | Briker, Roman; Walter, Frank; Cole, Michael S. |
Date | 2020-03-01 |
Abstract | This study seeks to advance our understanding of the leadership consequences that may ensue when supervisors and their teams have similar versus differing orientations toward the past. Integrating a leader-team fit perspective with functional leadership theory, we cast incongruence between supervisor and team past temporal focus as a key antecedent of supervisors' active (i.e., task-oriented and relationship-oriented) and passive (i.e., laissez-faire) leadership behaviors toward the team. We tested our hypotheses in a team-level study that included a field sample of 84 supervisors and their teams using polynomial regression and response surface analyses. Results illustrated that supervisors demonstrated more task-oriented and relationship-oriented leadership when supervisors' and their team's past temporal focus were incongruent rather than aligned. Furthermore, in situations of supervisor-team congruence, supervisors engaged in less task-oriented and relationship-oriented leadership and more laissez-faire leadership with higher (rather than lower) levels of supervisor and team past temporal focus. In sum, these findings support a complex (mis)fit model such that supervisors' attention to the past may hinder their productive leadership behaviors in some team contexts but not in others. Hence, this research advances a novel, multiple-stakeholder perspective on the role of both supervisors' and their team's past temporal focus for important leadership behaviors. |
Link | https://doi.org/10.1002/job.2416
https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/39744 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/job.2416 |
Department | Management & Leadership |
Subject | laissez-faire leadership
past temporal focus relationship-oriented leadership task-oriented leadership time perspective |
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