Purpose: A critical assumption of the organizational leadership literature is that leaders want to engage in effective leadership behaviors (Gilbert and Kelloway, 2014). However, leaders may vary in their motivation to be effective in a leadership role, leading to different levels of...

We examine organizational- (work empowerment) and individual-level (leader identity) factors that may affect leadership aspirations and how these factors interact with financial strain. A natural intervention in which time 1 data were collected prior to the COVID-19 pandemic allowed us to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the question of what motivates leaders to engage in effective leadership behaviours by integrating transformational leadership theory and self-determination theory. The authors propose that the type of enacted leadership behaviour is related to...