【公开学术报告】Does proactive followership have a negative impact on empowering leadership?

Date & Time: 14:00-15:30 pm, Fri. 27^th, December 2019

Venue: Room 2101, Tongji Building A

Language: English

Speaker：Dr. Jomel Ng Wei Xuan（National University of Singapore）

ABSTRACT

Proactivity constructs (e.g., proactive personality, taking charge) are ubiquitous in the organizational literature, but none of the constructs relates specifically to the employee’s interactional style in relation to the leader. In the present research, I define a novel proactivity construct: proactive followership. I adopt a ‘reverse-the-lens’ paradigm in examining leadership by testing how proactive followership affects empowering leadership. Through examination of one archival dataset, one longitudinal study and one experience sampling study, I tested a parallel mediation model of proactive followership on empowering leadership via leader’s affect-based trust and leader’s competence-based esteem threat. Results across studies show that although proactive followership heightens the leader’s esteem threat which then weakens the leader’s empowering response, there is an overall positive effect of proactive followership on empowering leadership.