Financial stress and leadership behavior: The role of leader gender.

ABSTRACT: Concern about personal finances is one of the most widespread and salient sources of stress. We advance our emerging understanding of the work-related impacts of financial stress by examining the consequences of personal financial stress on leadership behavior. Drawing on compensatory control theory, we propose that financial stress positively relates to abusive supervision via a lowered sense of personal control. Integrating social role theory, we propose that these effects are stronger for leaders who are men than leaders who are women. We test our model in a vignette-based study using a sample of leaders (N = 201) and a second multiwave, multisource field survey study among leaders and their subordinates (N = 119 leader-subordinate dyads). Across both studies, we found that financial st

SUBMITTER: Spoelma TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11892524 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature