The impact of leader communication on free-riding: An incentivized experiment with empowering and directive styles
| Autor: | Melissa C. Thomas-Hunt, Matthew Rodgers, Béatrice Boulu-Reshef, Charles A. Holt |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orleans [2004-2006] (LEO), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ithaca College, Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orleans [FRE2014] (LEO), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Université de Tours (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Sociology and Political Science business.industry 05 social sciences Public relations Public good [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance Directive Free riding [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences 0502 economics and business Leadership style Business 050207 economics Business and International Management Set (psychology) Leader follower ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS 050203 business & management Applied Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Leadership Quarterly Leadership Quarterly, Elsevier, 2020, 31, pp.101351-. ⟨10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.101351⟩ Leadership Quarterly, Elsevier, 2020, 31 (3), pp.101351. ⟨10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.101351⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1048-9843 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.101351⟩ |
| Popis: | Organizations often appoint leaders to foster cooperation. This paper studies the effect of leader communication on free-riding behavior using controlled and incentivized experiments. Leaders are asked to choose public messages from a set that induces a particular leadership style and to send them to subjects matched in groups to play a repeated, finite-horizon public good game. Using a between-subjects design, empowering and directive message sets are studied. Treatments are implemented with and without opportunities for two-way leader follower communication to study the impact of free-form communication. In the absence of opportunities for two-way leader follower communication, leaders assigned to the empowering messages treatment are more effective in mitigating free-riding than leaders assigned to the directive messages treatment. In its presence, contributions in both treatments are higher. The design allows for the study of a more interactive form of directive leadership by combining directive public messages with two-way leader follower communication. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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