Facing an incompetent leader: The effects of a nonexpert leader on subordinates' perception and behaviour

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_D0C70A18716C
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Titre
Facing an incompetent leader: The effects of a nonexpert leader on subordinates' perception and behaviour
Périodique
European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Darioly A., Schmid Mast M.
ISSN
1359-432X
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
04/2011
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
20
Numéro
2
Pages
239-265
Langue
anglais
Résumé
We investigated the effects of a leader's task-incompetence on how subordinates perceive and interact with their leader. In Study 1, 80 participants in a subordinate role interacted via e-mail and in Study 2, 80 participants interacted face-to-face with either a competent or an incompetent leader on a problem-solving task. Participants' dominance behaviour, how much they resisted the leader's influence, their perception of the leader, and their task involvement were assessed. As predicted, subordinates perceived the leader's incompetence as a lack of power and compensated for it by taking on a more powerful position themselves (i.e., more dominance behaviour, more resistance to the leader's influencing attempts). In sum, having a task-incompetent leader affects not only the subordinates' perception of the leader but also how the subordinate interacts with the leader.
Mots-clé
Competence, Dominance, Influence, Interaction, Leader, Subordinate
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