TY - JOUR
T1 - Let's agree about nice leaders
T2 - A literature review and meta-analysis of agreeableness and its relationship with leadership outcomes
AU - Blake, Andrew B.
AU - Luu, Vivian H.
AU - Petrenko, Oleg V.
AU - Gardner, William L.
AU - Moergen, Kristie J.N.
AU - Ezerins, Maira E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - In this study, we draw from 22 years of research in leadership to investigate the ambiguous relationship between the personality trait agreeableness and leadership. First, we conduct a comprehensive review of the leadership literature to build a foundational understanding of leader agreeableness that includes providing a broad definition for agreeableness, identifying emerging trends, and proposing an agenda for future research. Second, using the literature review as our theoretical foundation, we conduct a meta-analysis from the same body of literature to quantitatively decompose the relationship between leader agreeableness and leadership emergence and effectiveness. We also hypothesize and test the contextual moderating effects for gender, leadership level, and cultural context (as reflected by individualism-collectivism). Collectively, our findings provide a framework for future research on leadership agreeableness and support the notion that nice (highly agreeable) leaders can emerge as effective leaders.
AB - In this study, we draw from 22 years of research in leadership to investigate the ambiguous relationship between the personality trait agreeableness and leadership. First, we conduct a comprehensive review of the leadership literature to build a foundational understanding of leader agreeableness that includes providing a broad definition for agreeableness, identifying emerging trends, and proposing an agenda for future research. Second, using the literature review as our theoretical foundation, we conduct a meta-analysis from the same body of literature to quantitatively decompose the relationship between leader agreeableness and leadership emergence and effectiveness. We also hypothesize and test the contextual moderating effects for gender, leadership level, and cultural context (as reflected by individualism-collectivism). Collectively, our findings provide a framework for future research on leadership agreeableness and support the notion that nice (highly agreeable) leaders can emerge as effective leaders.
KW - Agreeableness
KW - Leadership effectiveness
KW - Leadership emergence
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85122335740&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101593
DO - 10.1016/j.leaqua.2021.101593
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85122335740
SN - 1048-9843
VL - 33
JO - Leadership Quarterly
JF - Leadership Quarterly
IS - 1
M1 - 101593
ER -