The impact of ethical and despotic leadership on the emotions and team work engagement perceptions of individual members within work teams
Year: 2016
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The purpose of this thesis is the study of the impact of two different leadership styles, ethical and despotic, on three different variables of members of a team: positive emotions, negative emotions and perception of team work engagement. Data was collected from both real world companies and through a laboratory study. The results show that ethical leadership seems to positively impact team work engagement perceptions and positive emotions and to negatively impact negative emotions. Despotic leadership, on the other hand, seems to be linked only to an increase of negative emotions. When analyzing data collected exclusively from companies, effects on positive emotions are not statistically significant. In terms of data exclusively retrieved from the study, only effects of ethical leadership on team work engagement and positive emotions are statistically significant. Furthermore, it was found that positive emotions seem to mediate the effect of ethical leadership on team work engagement.
Author: Simões, João Gonçalo Madeira Fraga Fernandes
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2523294231