Exploration of expectation for and disappointment about leadership: from the viewpoint of followers

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K03621
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Management
• Research Institution: Komazawa University
• Principal Investigator: HINO Kenta 駒澤大学, 経営学部, 教授 (70339670)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: リーダーシップ / 暗黙のリーダーシップ論 / 意味生成 / 解釈 / 認知スキーマ / メンタルモデル / コネクショニスト

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I conducted theoretical and empirical studies on “implicit leadership theories,” which refers to followers’ cognitive schema or mental model.
Followers’ expected or imagined ideal leader affects the perception of an actual leader’s behavior, intention, and competence. For instance, when an organization facing a crisis, followers are likely to regard a self-sacrificing leader as being competent and knowledgeable than a non-self-sacrificing one. It is known that Westerners have more strong “fundamental attribution error,” that is, a cognitive tendency to attribute the result to an individual than Easterners. This tendency affects the conventional leader-centered approach, because many previous researches have been conducted in the U.S.which is a part of the West.

Free Research Field

経営学，経営組織論

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

フォロワーの(しばしばバイアスのかかった)認知によってリーダーシップの成否が左右されるということを示した点は，この分野に新たな知見をもたらすと同時に，今後のリーダーシップ開発に役立つものと考える。