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calendar_month Publicación: 17/07/2020

Leader Interpersonal Emotion Regulation and Follower Performance

Interpersonal emotion regulation (IER) refers to the actions of influencing other
people’s feelings. Drawing on this construct and emotions-as-social-information theory,
we argue that leader IER to improve or worsen followers’ feelings would be related to
followers affect and thereby to their performance. Results of a multisource survey study
supported a mediation model in which leaders’ attempts to improve their followers’
feelings enhancing followers’ task performance via the followers’ experience of positive
affect. In contrast, leaders’ use of affect-worsening actions was associated with the
experience of followers’ negative affect, but not related to task performance. These
findings contribute by expanding knowledge on the affective underpinnings of the
leader-follower relationship and informing the development of leadership interventions
aimed to foster employee performance.

Fuente: Journal of Personnel Psychology