Let's stay in touch: Frequency (but not mode) of interaction between leaders and followers predicts better leadership outcomes.

ABSTRACT: Successful leadership requires leaders to make their followers aware of expectations regarding the goals to achieve, norms to follow, and task responsibilities to take over. This awareness is often achieved through leader-follower communication. In times of economic globalization and digitalization, however, leader-follower communication has become both more digitalized (virtual, rather than face-to-face) and less frequent, making successful leader-follower-communication more challenging. The current research tested in four studies (three preregistered) whether digitalization and frequency of interaction predict task-related leadership success. In one cross-sectional (Study 1, N = 200), one longitudinal (Study 2, N = 305), and one quasi-experimental study (Study 3, N = 178), as predicted,

SUBMITTER: Wroblewski D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9778566 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature