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How do Leaders Promote Cooperation? The Effects of Self-sacrifice and Emotional Expression

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  • School of Economics and Management, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

Received date: 2014-07-30

  Revised date: 2014-12-24

  Online published: 2015-07-22

Abstract

Previous studies have found mixed results regarding the influence of positive and negative leader affect on follower performance. In addition, the effect of leaders' self-sacrifice on followers' cooperation need to explore broader range of leader behaviors to refine theories of charismatic leadership and cooperation. It is proposed that leader expression will not be ignored. So the present laboratory experiment was conducted to test the interaction effect in the content of social dilemma. The result shows that both self-sacrifice and leader sadness expression engender more cooperation. Though the interaction role is not significant, the positive effect of self-sacrifice is most strongly only when the leader expresses happiness. The present results are discussed in light of prior research on self-sacrifice and the emotion as social information model (EASI) in general and suggestions are made that future research needs to focus more on the emotional character of leadership and the psychological processes underlying these effects, especially in the context of Chinese Culture.

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GAO Pei-xia, LI Chang-hong . How do Leaders Promote Cooperation? The Effects of Self-sacrifice and Emotional Expression[J]. Chinese Journal of Management Science, 2015 , 23(6) : 162 -168 . DOI: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.201.06.021

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