TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bracht, Eva
A1  - Keng-Highberger, Fong T.
A1  - Avolio, Bruce J.
A1  - Huang, Yiming
T1  - Take a selfie : examining how leaders emerge from leader self-awareness, self-leadership, and self-efficacy
T2  - Frontiers in psychology
N2  - It is important to understand the processes behind how and why individuals emerge as leaders, so that the best and most capable individuals may occupy leadership positions. So far, most literature in this area has focused on individual characteristics, such as personality or cognitive ability. While interactions between individuals and context do get research attention, we still lack a comprehensive understanding of how the social context at work may help individuals to emerge as leaders. Such knowledge could make an important contribution toward getting the most capable, rather than the most dominant or narcissistic individuals, into leadership positions. In the present work, we contribute toward closing this gap by testing a mediation chain linking a leader's leader self-awareness to a follower's leadership emergence with two time-lagged studies (nstudy1 = 449, nstudy2 = 355). We found that the leader's leader self-awareness was positively related to (a) the follower's leadership emergence and (b) the follower's nomination for promotion and that both relationships were serially mediated by the follower's self-leadership and the follower's leader self-efficacy. We critically discuss our findings and provide ideas for future research.
KW  - information processing theory
KW  - leadership emergence
KW  - leader self-awareness
KW  - leader self-efficacy
KW  - self-leadership
KW  - social cognitive theory
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/61086
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-610868
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 12
IS  - art. 635085
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -