Leadership: The Good, the Bad, and the Impact on Followers and Leaders
Prof. Tingting Chen
Associate Professor of Management,
Lingnan University
Date: 22 May 2025 (Thursday)
Time: 10:30-12:00
Venue: E22-G015
Host: Prof. Jacky Fok Loi HONG, Professor in Management
Abstract
Leadership research has covered a broad spectrum of approaches, examining both positive and negative styles, and has extended to consider implications for both followers and leaders themselves. This comprehensive investigation has enriched our understanding of leadership’s multifaceted impacts on various stakeholders. In this presentation, I will discuss my four recent papers that employ diverse methodologies, including cross-sectional, cross-lagged, longitudinal, and experimental studies. The first paper explores the effects of transformational versus directive-achieving leadership on followers’ creativity via dual-cognitive pathways. This paper includes a cross-cultural field study in the sales sector and a multi-wave field study on a sample of project teams. The second paper presents a nuanced model that differentiates the impacts of active and passive-aggressive abusive supervision. Based on a multi-wave field study and two experimental studies, this model elucidates how the different forms of abusive supervision impact followers’ identity protection and restructuring processes, subsequently influencing both negative and positive work outcomes. The third paper, through a five-wave cross-lagged study involving 474 team leaders and 3,712 followers, assesses the effects of servant leadership on leader performance and wellbeing through satisfying leaders’ psychological needs and increasing their role conflict. Finally, the fourth paper adopts a developmental approach to examine the learning and adaptive outcomes for leaders practicing transformational leadership. This longitudinal study spans four waves with a one-month interval and includes data from 243 leaders and 1,807 followers, moving beyond transient effects to assess longer-term impacts.
Speaker
Prof. Tingting Chen is the Head and Associate Professor of the Department of Management at Lingnan University. She earned her Ph.D. in Management from City University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on creativity and innovation at both individual and team levels, leadership, proactivity, and prosocial behavior. Tingting has published more than 30 articles in premier management journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Management Studies. Tingting currently serves as a Senior Editor for the Asia Pacific Journal of Management. She also serves on the editorial review boards of prestigious journals including Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management Studies, and Human Relations. She is the Chair of the SIOP (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology) Virtual Program for the Greater China Region. Prof. Chen has received several accolades for her research and teaching, including the Early Career Award from the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong, and the Research Output Excellence Award and the Education for Service Faculty Award from Lingnan University.
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