Vasquez, C.A. orcid.org/0000-0002-8144-0854, Niven, K. orcid.org/0000-0002-6675-5532 and Madrid, H.P. (2020) Leader interpersonal emotion regulation and follower performance. Journal of Personnel Psychology, 19 (2). pp. 97-101. ISSN 1866-5888
Abstract
Interpersonal emotion regulation (IER) refers to the actions of influencing other people’s feelings. We apply this construct to the context of leadership to determine whether leader IER may explain followers’ performance. Drawing on emotions-as-social-information theory, we argue that leader strategies to improve or worsen followers’ feelings would be related to followers’ affect and thereby to their performance. We tested these proposals using a multisource field study involving 31 leaders and 157 followers. Results from multilevel modeling supported a mediation model in which leaders’ attempts to improve their followers’ feelings enhance followers’ task performance via the followers’ experience of positive affect. In contrast, leaders’ use of affect-worsening actions was associated with the experience of followers’ negative affect, but not related to task performance. These findings contribute by expanding knowledge on the affective underpinnings of the leader–follower relationship and informing the development of leadership interventions aimed to foster employee performance.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Hogrefe Publishing. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of Personnel Psychology. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | interpersonal emotion regulation; affect; task performance; leadership |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 10 Mar 2022 10:41 |
Last Modified: | 10 Mar 2022 10:41 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Hogrefe Publishing Group |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1027/1866-5888/a000249 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:184565 |