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Charisma attribution during organizational change: the importance of followers' emotions and concern for well‐being
Author(s) -
Chen Chao C.,
Belkin Liuba Y.,
McNamee Robert,
Kurtzberg Terri R.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/jasp.12078
Subject(s) - psychology , attribution , charisma , social psychology , political science , law
Taking a follower‐centric perspective, we examined how charisma attribution to a change leader was influenced by the well‐being concerns and emotions of organizational members. We conducted three studies to examine how college business students and Executive M aster of B usiness A dministration ( EMBA ) students responded to a grading policy reform aimed at reducing grade inflation. We found that emotions and well‐being concerns such as school year and grade point average influenced charisma attribution by the undergraduate students and that there was a greater divergence of emotional reactions and charisma attribution among undergraduate students than among the executive MBA s. Future directions for follower‐centric leadership research on charismatic leadership are discussed.