Study on the Effect of Leaders' Emotional Expressions on Followers' Performance—based on EASI

Authors

Rui Yang, Wei Li, Yan-juan Mo

Corresponding Author

Rui Yang

DOI

https://doi.org/10.2991/icassr-15.2016.32How to use a DOI?

Keywords

leaders’ emotional expressions; followers’ performance; followers’ psychology maturities; familiarities of followers and leader

Abstract

Leaders’ emotions affect followers’ task performance and peripheral performance, which is crucial to the organization’s survival and success. However, the mechanisms for effect are not clear and the existing research results are quite different. Based on emotions as social information model, this paper discusses the followers’ performance led by leaders’ emotional expressions through affective reaction path and inferential path. These two paths may operate separately or in parallel and in any order. And followers’ psychology maturities and familiarities with their leaders (in-group /out-group) play important role: When followers’ psychology maturities and familiarities with their leaders are high(in-group), leaders’ emotional expressions may affect followers’ performance by providing relevant information about the situation (inferential path). When followers’ psychology maturities and familiarities with their leaders are low (out-group), leaders’ emotions can be directly transmitted to the followers through the emotional process and influence followers’ impression of leaders’ behaviors as well as their performance(affective reactions path).

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license.