Effects of charismatic content and delivery on follower task performance - The moderating role of task charisma conduciveness

    Authors

    S. K. Johnson;R. L. Dipboye

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Group Organ. Manage.

    Keywords

    charismatic leadership; charisma conduciveness; task performance; content; delivery; COMPUTER-MEDIATED GROUPS; PATH-GOAL THEORY; TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP; SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT; IDEA GENERATION; GROUP POTENCY; CREATIVITY; STYLE; ANONYMITY; CRISIS; Psychology, Applied; Management

    Abstract

    The current study examined the moderating effect of task type on the effectiveness of charismatic leadership. Using a laboratory study, the content (visionary, nonvisionary) and delivery (expressive, unexpressive) of a leadership speech were manipulated, along with the charisma conduciveness of performance tasks. Based on the propositions asserted by Shamir and Howell, the authors suggest that charisma-conducive tasks are low in analyzability (more complex) and require greater levels of initiative and creativity. In addition, the authors expected that the effects of charismatic leadership on task performance should be more pronounced in terms of quality than quantity of performance. As expected, visionary content and expressive delivery resulted in higher attributions of charismatic leadership. In addition, visionary content led to better quality of performance on more charisma-conducive tasks.

    Journal Title

    Group & Organization Management

    Volume

    33

    Issue/Number

    1

    Publication Date

    1-1-2008

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    77

    Last Page

    106

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000252399800004

    ISSN

    1059-6011

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