Today’s organizations have come to view and to use workplace teams as information processors, making the ability to manage knowledge and expertise an essential pre-requisite for effective group decisions. Consequently, an important mandate for leaders of information processing groups is to...

Organizations often address agency concerns through reward systems such as goal setting and monetary incentives, and while these are important mechanisms for increasing and aligning employee effort, they can lead to undesirable or unethical behaviors. In this article, we explore the interactive...

In this paper we investigate how the public recognition of a job well done (i.e., credit allocation) impacts employee turnover. Based on expectancy violations, psychological contracts, and turnover research, we predicted that subordinates would be more likely to leave an organization if their...

We attempt to resolve the seemingly contradictory findings that leaders in teams sometimes advance team outcomes and in other instances thwart performance. In two experiments, we examined the information sharing patterns of team leaders and their impact on decision quality. Contrary to previous...

In this paper we examine how the relationship between leaders' credit allocation behavior and subordinates' commitment to their leader is influenced by the fulfillment of subordinates' expectations (i.e., expecting one type of behavior and having that behavior occur). We predicted that...

In this paper we report the results of two experimental studies designed to test how increases in objective power might systematically lead to decreases in self-perceptions of power, which in turn can lead to inaction. We draw upon theories of power and choice to examine these effects. We find...

This research examines how a newly assigned team leader's status and leadership behaviors interact to affect subordinate group members' emotional perceptions of the leader, cognitive assessments of leader effectiveness, and behavioral reactions to leader influence. The research also looks at the...

In this paper we report the results of three experimental studies designed to test how demographic characteristics affect outsiders' assessments of a firm's top managers. We draw on theories of evaluation, status characteristics, and social identity to examine the interactive effects of...