Followers Who Lead: Modeling Leader Emergence Through Self-Monitoring and Social Identity Theories

<p>Past research has demonstrated direct and indirect links between the personality traits of dominance and self-monitoring and the resulting leader emergence. Research in the social psychology field has examined the emergent leader process from a different perspective, developing the leadership model of group leader prototypicality (Hogg, 2001c) from social identity theory and self-categorization, which maps the leader emergence process through group prototypicality or the degree individuals' possess the traits and characteristics the group finds most salient (Hogg & Terry, 2000; D. van Knippenberg & Hogg, 2003). Combining traditionally dichotomous lines of research (trait approach and leader group prototypicality), this paper establishes precedent indicating both are relevant in studying leader emergence, and in fact variables from both lines interact with each other. Findings, while not all as predicted, are shown as consistent with theory and past research significant main effects and interactions between all the independent variables impacting the likelihood of individual leader emergence.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Campus Access Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Moore School of Business

Year

2009

Author dc:creator

• Rutti, Raina Marie

Contributors dc:contributor

• Elizabeth C. Ravlin

• Business
• Business Administration, Management, and Operations
• Leader emergence
• Prototypicality
• Self-monitoring

Statement dc:rights

• © 2009, Raina Marie Rutti

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/89

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarcommons.sc.edu:etd-1090