TY - GEN A1 - Meyer, Bertolt A1 - Jonas, Klaus A1 - Feese, Sebastian A1 - Tröster, Gerhard A1 - Schermuly, Carsten C. A1 - Arnrich, Bert T1 - A social-signal processing approach to leadership: specific behaviors characterize considerate leaders N2 - Combining leadership research with findings from small group research and clinical psychology, we propose that three specific observable interaction behaviors of leaders are partially responsible for the positive effects of considerate leadership on team performance: Question asking, active listening, and behavioral mimicry, with the latter serving as a marker for rapport and empathy. In a laboratory experiment involving 55 three- person student groups who worked on a simulated personnel- selection task, we manipulated the leader’s leadership style as being either considerate or inconsiderate. The number of questions asked by the leader in the subsequent team interaction was obtained through behavioral coding, and active listening and behavioral mimicry were measured through social signal processing (voice analysis and motion tracking). In partial support of the hypotheses, leaders’ question asking and their active listening fully mediated the effect of the leadership manipulation on team performance. Leaders’ behavioral mimicry predicted subordinates’ ratings of the leader on the individualized consideration subscale and on the transformational leadership dimension of the MLQ questionnaire. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. KW - Leadership Y1 - 2012 N1 - Volltext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Fulltext due to copyright not available. ER - TY - GEN A1 - Meyer, Bertolt A1 - Shemla, Meir A1 - Schermuly, Carsten C. T1 - Faultlines, social category salience, and information elaboration in diverse teams N2 - Keine Angabe No details KW - Faultlines KW - Social Category Salience KW - Information Elaboration KW - Diverse Teams Y1 - 2011 N1 - Volltext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Fulltext due to copyright not available. ER - TY - GEN A1 - Meyer, Bertolt A1 - Schermuly, Carsten C. A1 - Schermuly, René A. T1 - The psychological empowerment of vice-principals, its antecedents, and its effects on job satisfaction and burn-out N2 - Keine Angabe No details KW - Psychological Empowerment KW - Job Satisfaction KW - Burn-Out Y1 - 2011 N1 - Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278749622_The_psychological_empowerment_of_vice-_principals_its_antecedents_and_its_effects_on_job_satisfaction_and_burn-out ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Meyer, Bertolt A1 - Burtscher, Michael J. A1 - Jonas, Klaus A1 - Schermuly, Carsten C. A1 - Feese, Sebastian A1 - Arnrich, Bert A1 - Tröster, Gerhard T1 - What good leaders actually do: micro-level leadership behaviour, leader evaluations, and team decision quality JF - European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology N2 - We supplement broad definitions of leadership behaviour with the concept of micro-level leadership behaviour, leaders’ verbal and non-verbal visible conduct and interaction. For the context of team decision-making, we identify two potentially beneficial micro-level leadership behaviours, question asking and behavioural mimicry. Specifically, we propose that under conditions of informational complexity and unshared information, participative leadership is most appropriate for team decision-making, that its effects are mediated by inquiring and empathy, and that question asking and mimicry are the behavioural micro-level manifestations of inquiring and empathy. We thus hypothesize that the effect of participative leadership on team decision quality and leader evaluation is mediated by question asking and mimicry. We conduct a laboratory experiment with student teams working on a hidden profile decision-making task and measure question asking through behavioural coding and mimicry with motion sensors. Results show that the effect of participative leadership on decision quality is mediated by question asking, and that the effect of participative leadership on leader evaluation as transformational is mediated by leaders’ behavioural mimicry and question asking. Under control of these micro-level behaviours, team decision quality and leader evaluations were unrelated. KW - Decision-making KW - Interactions KW - Mimicry Y1 - 2016 N1 - Volltext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Fulltext due to copyright no available. VL - 25 IS - 6 SP - 773 EP - 789 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schermuly, Carsten C. A1 - Meyer, Bertolt T1 - Good relationships at work: The effects of Leader–Member Exchange and Team–Member Exchange on psychological empowerment, emotional exhaustion, and depression JF - Journal of Organizational Behavior N2 - Emotional exhaustion and depression pose a threat to employees' psychological health. Social relationships at work are important potential buffers against these threats, but the corresponding psychological processes are still unclear. We propose that the subjective experience of high-quality relationships with supervisors (i.e., Leader–Member Exchange [LMX]) is one of the protective factors against psychological health issues at work and that this effect is mediated by psychological empowerment. We tested these assumptions with two studies (one cross-sectional and one time lagged) on diverse samples of employees from different organizations. The first study employed emotional exhaustion as the outcome measure; the second used depression. Results from both studies support the proposed process by showing that LMX positively affects empowerment, which negatively affects emotional exhaustion (Study 1) and depression (Study 2). Additionally, Study 2 also showed that Team–Member Exchange is as important as LMX for preventing psychological health issues among employees. KW - Depression KW - Mental Health Y1 - 2015 N1 - Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283507876_Good_relationships_at_work_The_effects_of_Leader-Member_Exchange_and_Team-Member_Exchange_on_psychological_empowerment_emotional_exhaustion_and_depression VL - 37 IS - 5 SP - 673 EP - 691 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken, NJ ER -