Overshadowed Leadership: The Grey Areas of Leadership Malpractice

Ferreira, Aristides I.; Pérez-Nebra, Amália; Ferreira, Paula

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Ferreira, Aristides I.

Pérez-Nebra, Amália

Ferreira, Paula

Abstract(s)

In times of uncertainty and absence of resources leaders may cause harm to their subordinates. Although the empirical research focuses on abusive supervision, we propose a scale of an overshadowed leadership construct, which may inform future research on the grey areas of leadership malpractice. In six studies we investigate the viability and importance of this construct. We develop and test a new instrument to measure overshadowed leadership, test the equivalence between different countries, examine the connections of overshadowed leadership with other constructs in a nomological network, and demonstrate its predictive validity for outcomes. The current findings proposed a reduced scale to evaluate a new unethical leadership dimension which is well supported by robust theoretical models that open interesting lines of research for future studies. Therefore, theoretical and practical implications, as well as limitations and future research are discussed at the end of the paper.

Keywords

Conservation of resources Rivalry theory Unethical leadership Scale development

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/99341

Citation

Ferreira, A. I., Pérez-Nebra, A., & Ferreira, P. (2023). Overshadowed leadership: The grey areas of leadership malpractice. In S. Taneja (Ed.), Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings.