Directive leadership as social adaptation: How leader and aggregate team core self‐evaluation interact with team past performance to shape directive behaviour.

To address when and to what extent leaders enact directive behaviour, we integrate adaptive leadership theory with trait‐activation theory to conceptualize directive leadership as a social adaptation process shaped by leader–team interactions. We propose that leader core self‐evaluation (CSE) repres...

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Published in:Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology Vol. 99; no. 1; pp. 1 - 21
Main Authors: Li, Hua, Wang, Haoyu, Li, Fuli
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2026
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