Implicit Leadership Theories

Schyns, B.; Riggio, R.E.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2186-1

Implicit Leadership Theories

Schyns, B.; Riggio, R.E.

Authors

Professor Birgit Schyns birgit.schyns@durham.ac.uk
Professor

R.E. Riggio

Contributors

A. Farazmand
Editor

Abstract

While leadership is often seen as what leaders do, more recent work in this area acknowledges that leadership is a process of interaction between different actors (i.e., leaders and followers) and the environment. This notion of a process of interaction leads straight to the question of what shapes this interaction. Why do leaders behave the way they do? Why do followers react the way they do? One way of looking into this question is to turn to implicit leadership theories. Implicit leadership theories (ILTs) are everyday theories that individuals hold about leaders in general (or ideal leaders). They are mental representations of leaders and influence how an individual acts toward leaders or as leaders based on these cognitive representations. These cognitive representations are similar to stereotypes, in that they are stored in memory and will be activated when the person meets an individual whose characteristics and behavior matches their implici ...

Citation

Schyns, B., & Riggio, R. (2016). Implicit Leadership Theories. In A. Farazmand (Ed.), Global encyclopedia of public administration, public policy, and governance (1-7). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2186-1

Acceptance Date	Nov 30, 2016
Online Publication Date	May 12, 2016
Publication Date	May 12, 2016
Deposit Date	Jun 15, 2016
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	1-7
Book Title	Global encyclopedia of public administration, public policy, and governance.
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2186-1
Public URL	https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1642323
Publisher URL	http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2186-1