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Power and leadership.

Marius van Dijke¹

¹Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.

Current Opinion in Psychology

|July 24, 2019

Summary

This review explores how leader power affects influence tactics like punishment and fairness. It highlights how individual and contextual factors moderate these power dynamics in social collectives.

Area of Science:

Social Psychology
Organizational Behavior
Leadership Studies

Background:

Leaders are granted power to enhance collective performance.
Existing research lacks a comprehensive overview of power's influence on leadership mechanisms.
Understanding these dynamics is crucial for effective leadership.

Purpose of the Study:

To synthesize recent research on the effects of power on leadership influence mechanisms.
To examine how power impacts leaders' punishment, follower concern, and procedural fairness.
To identify the role of individual and contextual factors in these power-influence relationships.

Main Methods:

Literature review of recent research on power and leadership.
Analysis of studies examining leaders' use of punishment, follower concern, and procedural fairness.

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Synthesis of findings related to individual differences and contextual moderators.

Main Results:

Power can have both positive and negative effects on leaders' influence mechanisms.
The effectiveness of power is moderated by individual differences and situational contexts.
Specific mechanisms like punishment and fairness enactment are differentially affected by power.

Conclusions:

Leader power significantly shapes the effectiveness of various influence strategies.
Individual and contextual factors are critical for understanding the nuanced impact of power.
Further research is needed to fully elucidate the complex interplay between power and leadership effectiveness.