The Nature of Leadership includes the most important areas of leadership in a concise and integrated manner with impactful contributions from the most prominent leadership scholars and researchers in the field. Editors John Antonakis and David V. Day provide an in-depth exploration of the major...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Leadership : past, present, and future / John Antonakis & David V. Day -- The major schools of leadership -- Leader traits and attributes / Steve J. Zaccaro, Samantha Dubrow, & Mary Jo -- Kolze -- Charisma and the "new leadership" / John Antonakis -- In the...

Purpose – This study focuses on the relationship between cohesion, consensus in the perception of leadership style of the supervisor within teams and solidarity behaviour of employees towards their supervisor (vertical solidarity behaviour) and towards other team members (horizontal solidarity...

In this theoretical paper, we investigate the importance of nonverbal behaviour in the context of leadership. Research on the decoding of social interactions has shown that the quality or type of relationship as well as relationally relevant emotional states are transmitted nonverbally. With...