A configurational approach to leadership behavior through archetypal analysis
The behavioral approach to leadership, which has introduced leadership styles, has been of great importance to the leadership field. Despite its importance, scholars have recently argued and demonstrated that these styles have various conceptual, methodological, and empirical limitations that could...
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| author | Janka I. Stoker Harry Garretsen Dimitrios Soudis Tim Vriend |
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| description | The behavioral approach to leadership, which has introduced leadership styles, has been of great importance to the leadership field. Despite its importance, scholars have recently argued and demonstrated that these styles have various conceptual, methodological, and empirical limitations that could hamper further development of the leadership field. Consequently, they have called for alternative approaches to study leadership. We argue that taking a configurational or person-oriented approach to leadership behavior, which focuses on ideal-type configurations of leadership behaviors to identify leadership archetypes, offers such an alternative. We demonstrate the potential of such an approach via the use of archetypal analysis, for a dataset of 46 behaviors across 6 leadership styles, including more than 150,000 respondents. Our results offer a clear indication for the existence of archetypes of leadership. We also suggest how the resulting archetypes can get a meaningful interpretation, and discuss implications for future research. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7d9dadb9ba614b41b0352da980aaa96a2023-01-13T13:00:30ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782023-01-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.10222991022299A configurational approach to leadership behavior through archetypal analysisJanka I. Stoker0Harry Garretsen1Dimitrios Soudis2Tim Vriend3Department of HRM & OB, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, Groningen, NetherlandsDepartment of GEM, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, Groningen, NetherlandsDepartment of GEM, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, Groningen, NetherlandsInternational Business School, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, NetherlandsThe behavioral approach to leadership, which has introduced leadership styles, has been of great importance to the leadership field. Despite its importance, scholars have recently argued and demonstrated that these styles have various conceptual, methodological, and empirical limitations that could hamper further development of the leadership field. Consequently, they have called for alternative approaches to study leadership. We argue that taking a configurational or person-oriented approach to leadership behavior, which focuses on ideal-type configurations of leadership behaviors to identify leadership archetypes, offers such an alternative. We demonstrate the potential of such an approach via the use of archetypal analysis, for a dataset of 46 behaviors across 6 leadership styles, including more than 150,000 respondents. Our results offer a clear indication for the existence of archetypes of leadership. We also suggest how the resulting archetypes can get a meaningful interpretation, and discuss implications for future research.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1022299/fullperson-oriented approacharchetypal analysisconfigurationsleadership stylesarchetypes |
| spellingShingle | Janka I. Stoker Harry Garretsen Dimitrios Soudis Tim Vriend A configurational approach to leadership behavior through archetypal analysis Frontiers in Psychology person-oriented approach archetypal analysis configurations leadership styles archetypes |
| title | A configurational approach to leadership behavior through archetypal analysis |
| title_full | A configurational approach to leadership behavior through archetypal analysis |
| title_fullStr | A configurational approach to leadership behavior through archetypal analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | A configurational approach to leadership behavior through archetypal analysis |
| title_short | A configurational approach to leadership behavior through archetypal analysis |
| title_sort | configurational approach to leadership behavior through archetypal analysis |
| topic | person-oriented approach archetypal analysis configurations leadership styles archetypes |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1022299/full |
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