Call for Papers: ''Followercentric Approaches to Leadership''
A Topical Issue of the Zeitschrift für Psychologie / Journal of Psychology
Guest Editors: Michelle C. Bligh (Claremont Graduate University, CA, USA) and
Jeffrey C. Kohles (Center for Leadership Innovation and Mentorship Building (CLIMB), California State University San Marcos, CA, USA)
For this topical issue, we invite contributions that address one or more of the following:
1. followers' characteristics and potential biases that influence attributions of leadership, including attributions for organizational success and failure and the ''Romance of Leadership'';
2. the role of followers' characteristics, perceptions, and motivations in interpreting leadership ratings, as well as the potential impact of situational factors such as the role of crisis and follower uncertainty or fear on these processes; and
3. the social construction of leadership, including social contagion processes and other interfollower processes.
Details are available at:
http://www.hogrefe.com/fileadmin/redakteure/hogrefe_com/Periodicals/Zeitschrift_fuer_Psychologie_Journal_of_psychology/zfp_call_2012_04.pdf
Deadline for submission of abstracts is October 15, 2011.
Deadline for submission of full papers is February 15, 2012.
Please submit questions and contributions electronically to:
Michelle C. Bligh (michelle.bligh@cgu.edu).
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Michelle C. Bligh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Acting Associate Dean
School of Behavioral & Organizational Sciences
Claremont Graduate University
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