Decomposing authoritarian leadership into two essential elements - authoritarian decision making and authoritarian decision implementation, this dissertation focuses on disentangling the relationship between authoritarian leadership and work unit effectiveness, the relationship that has confused leadership researchers for ...

Considering the temporal nature of ethical leadership is among the greatest challenges for ethical leadership researchers (Brown & Mitchell, 2010). Rising to that challenge, the central goal of this research is to consider ethical leadership that remains consistent over time (stable) in comparison with ethical leadership that ...

Psychologically central identities are those that are so important to individuals’ self-definition that they are top-of-mind for individuals across situations. This becomes a critical consideration when these identities interfere with employees’ behavior at work. In this dissertation, I support the existence of psychological ...

Current team diversity research is largely equivocal regarding the direct effects of intrateam differences on team processes and performance. In response, scholars encourage a more complex and multi-level approach to understanding this phenomenon. In this dissertation, I contribute to this effort by theorizing an emergent ...

Despite the ubiquity of gossip, current scholarly perspectives of gossip conceptualize gossip as a largely uniform behavior, which simplifies its inherent complexity, ambiguity, and broader consequences in organizations. In this dissertation, I seek to contribute to theory on gossip in organizations by addressing two key ...