TY - JOUR
T1 - Leading by the collars’ color
T2 - 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management
AU - van Zwol, Wouter
AU - de Jong, Jeroen
AU - Rusman, Ellen
AU - van der Heijden, B.I.J.M.
N1 - Van Zwol, W.G.A, De Jong, J.P., Rusman, E.M., & Van der Heijden, B.I.J.M. (2023). Leading by the collars’ color: A systematic review on leadership behaviors across occupations [conference paper]. The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2023, 4-8th of August. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.17898abstract
PY - 2023/7/24
Y1 - 2023/7/24
N2 - Context is considered to have a crucial impact on the process of leadership and its effects. Despite the urgent calls to include and expand the investigation of the role of context in leadership research, however, scholarly work in this field that includes contextual variables remains cluttered (Johns, 2018). In particular, there is limited insight into how occupational contexts impact leadership behaviors (Oc, 2018), leaving questions such as “do leaders of construction workers engage in similar behaviors compared to, for example, nurses and accountants?” unanswered. In this study, we systematically review the literature on leadership behavior to create insights into the literature on leadership behaviors among three occupational types: blue-, white-, and pink-collar occupations. Drawing on 548 articles, we first conclude that occupational context is only mentioned in 31% (n=174) articles on leader behavior and follower outcomes. An analysis of these 174 sources reveals that occupation is rarely included in research models (e.g. as a moderator), as research usually focuses on one occupational group. Moreover, there is some overlap in the broad pallet types of leadership behaviors studied, but there are also distinct differences in the types of leader behaviors studied within the different occupational groups.
AB - Context is considered to have a crucial impact on the process of leadership and its effects. Despite the urgent calls to include and expand the investigation of the role of context in leadership research, however, scholarly work in this field that includes contextual variables remains cluttered (Johns, 2018). In particular, there is limited insight into how occupational contexts impact leadership behaviors (Oc, 2018), leaving questions such as “do leaders of construction workers engage in similar behaviors compared to, for example, nurses and accountants?” unanswered. In this study, we systematically review the literature on leadership behavior to create insights into the literature on leadership behaviors among three occupational types: blue-, white-, and pink-collar occupations. Drawing on 548 articles, we first conclude that occupational context is only mentioned in 31% (n=174) articles on leader behavior and follower outcomes. An analysis of these 174 sources reveals that occupation is rarely included in research models (e.g. as a moderator), as research usually focuses on one occupational group. Moreover, there is some overlap in the broad pallet types of leadership behaviors studied, but there are also distinct differences in the types of leader behaviors studied within the different occupational groups.
KW - leadership
KW - context
KW - occupation
KW - skills
U2 - 10.5465/amproc.2023.17898abstract
DO - 10.5465/amproc.2023.17898abstract
M3 - Conference Abstract/Poster in journal
SN - 0065-0668
VL - 2023
JO - Academy of Management Proceedings
JF - Academy of Management Proceedings
IS - 1
Y2 - 4 August 2023 through 8 August 2023
ER -