How Authentic Leadership Influences Team Performance: The Mediating Role of Team Reflexivity



Lyubovnikova, Joanne ORCID: 0000-0003-0710-3929, Legood, Alison, Turner, Nicola and Mamakouka, Argyro
(2017) How Authentic Leadership Influences Team Performance: The Mediating Role of Team Reflexivity. Journal of Business Ethics, 141 (1). pp. 59-70.

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Abstract

This study examines how authentic leadership influences team performance via the mediating mechanism of team reflexivity. Adopting a self-regulatory perspective, we propose that authentic leadership will predict the specific team regulatory process of reflexivity, which in turn will be associated with two outcomes of team performance, effectiveness and productivity. Using survey data from 53 teams in three organizations in the United Kingdom and Greece and controlling for collective trust, we found support for our stated hypotheses with the results indicating a significant fully mediated relationship. As predicted the self-regulatory behaviors inherent in the process of authentic leadership served to collectively shape team behavior, manifesting in the process of team reflexivity, which, in turn, positively predicted team performance. We conclude with a discussion of how this study extends theoretical understanding of authentic leadership in relation to teamwork and delineate several practical implications for leaders and organizations.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Authentic leadership, Reflexivity, Self-regulation, Team performance, Team processes
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 22 Oct 2018 15:40
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 01:14
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-015-2692-3
Open Access URL: https://research.aston.ac.uk/portal/en/researchout...
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3027860