Simon Liegl
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Prof. Dr.
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Liegl
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Simon
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simon.liegl@unisg.ch
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Item type:Publication, Paradoxical leadership: the role of leader emotions and the mediating effect of paradoxical mindset on followers’ performance(2025-09-29); Purpose-Research on paradoxical leadership, an approach in which leaders exhibit seemingly contradictory yet interdependent behaviors, has gained significant traction in recent years. However, empirical studies on the emotional antecedents and outcomes of paradoxical leadership are rather rare, offering scarce insights into how managers can become paradoxical leaders and how paradoxical leadership affects followers' role-based job performance. To address this gap, this article demonstrates that leaders' positive and negative trait emotions play a pertinent role in being a paradoxical leader and provides evidence that paradoxical leadership has a positive indirect effect on followers' performance through their paradoxical mindset. Design/methodology/approach-This study surveyed 313 subordinates regarding their leaders' trait affect and paradoxical leadership behaviors as well as the subordinates' own paradoxical mindset and performance, using an online questionnaire. We assessed hypotheses using structural equation modeling. Findings-We found positive leader trait affect corresponds positively with paradoxical leadership and vice versa for negative leader trait affect. Paradoxical leadership, in turn, stimulates an increase in role-based job performance through the pathway of followers' paradoxical mindset. Originality/value-Our results contribute to the literature by showing that leaders' emotions are key to unlocking the potential of paradoxical leadership, providing evidence that paradoxical leadership has a positive effect on followers' role-based performance and demonstrating that followers' paradoxical mindset plays an important mediating role between paradoxical leadership and followers' performance.Type:journal articleJournal:Leadership & Organization Development JournalScopus© Citations 3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Eyes on the Leader: Gaze Behavior as a Cue for Follower Conscientiousness(2025-11-29); Scopus© Citations 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Emotional leader communication in the digital age: An experimental investigation on the role of emoji(2024-05); Marco R. FurtnerThe rapid pace of digitalization in the workplace confronts leaders and followers with the demand to get accustomed to digital ways of communication. The prevalent digital media platforms, like e-mail and messenger services, however, are less broad in informational depth, omitting nonverbal cues and usually adopting a more stifled and factual tonality. This constitutes a substantial challenge for leaders, as the transferal of emotions, mostly driven by a message's nonverbal delivery, constitutes one of the key pathways for their effectiveness. Quasi-nonverbal signals, like emoji, could be a means to re-enrich written leader communication with affect. We conducted two experiments to gain insights into the benefits and risks of emoji in leader communication. Our findings reveal the potential of positive emoji to enhance followers' ascriptions of desirable leader attributes, approval of the leader, and their other-regarding behaviour, however only in certain organisational contexts. Conversely, negative emoji substantially undermined the leader's standing, leading to various undesirable outcomes. Our findings thus allow for inferences on how followers will likely react to specific quasi-nonverbal displays and provide leaders with recommendations for adapting their affective signalling to elicit desired responses.Type:journal articleJournal:Computers in Human BehaviorScopus© Citations 23 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Eyes that Lead: The charismatic influence of gaze signaling on employee approval and extra-effort(2024-10); Scopus© Citations 7 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Introverted and yet effective? A faceted approach to the relationship between leadership and extraversion(2023-08-10); Marco R. Furtner<jats:sec><jats:title>Introduction</jats:title><jats:p>Extraversion and its facets of assertiveness and sociability were identified as stable predictors for leader emergence and effectiveness. However, recent research suggested that extraversion may lie in the eyes of the beholder; it might not be the leader’s possession but their followers’ attribution of the trait that shapes these criteria of leader success.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods</jats:title><jats:p>In our study, we reverse-engineered this relationship and assessed the effects of effective leadership behaviors on personality perceptions. More specifically, we created scenarios of a leader responding to coordination challenges with passive-avoidant, transactional, or transformational leadership behaviors. We presented 204 participants with these scenarios and assessed how extraverted, assertive, and sociable they perceived the leader to be.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results</jats:title><jats:p>Interestingly, and not fully meeting our expectations, ascriptions of extraversion and its facets of assertiveness and sociability did not directly relate to the effectiveness of the behaviors, as the moderately effective transactional leadership style garnered the highest ascriptions of extraversion and its facets. Further, ascriptions of extraversion to the transformational behavior of intellectual stimulation were remarkably low, matched only by the laissez-faire dimension of the passive-avoidant leadership style.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion</jats:title><jats:p>We integrate and contrast these unexpected but explainable findings with current research, discuss potential associations between introversion and empowering leadership practices and provide suggestions for future discourse, illustrating the potential of investigating the presence of an introverted leadership advantage in the workplace of tomorrow.</jats:p></jats:sec>Type:journal articleJournal:Frontiers in PsychologyScopus© Citations 7 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, A psychophysiological investigation of mourning: There are two sides to the story(2022-02-01); Ulrich Lobis<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Mourning constitutes an important human emotion, which might cause—among other things—major depressive symptoms when lasting for too long. To date, no study investigated whether mourning is related to specific psychophysiological activation patterns. Therefore, we examined physiological reactions induced by iconographic mourning-related stimuli in comparison to neutral and attachment stimuli in healthy adults (N = 77, mean age: 21.9). We evaluated pupillometric and eye-tracking parameters as well as heart rate variability (HRV) and skin conductance (EDA). Eye-tracking revealed a stronger dilated pupil during mourning in comparison to the neutral, but not to the attachment condition; furthermore, fixation patterns revealed less fixations on mourning stimuli. While HF HRV was reduced during mourning and attachment, we found no differences concerning EDA parameters between conditions. Results suggest specific eye-movement and pupil adaptations during representations of mourning, which might point toward inward cognition or avoidance, but no specific physiological pattern concerning HRV and EDA.</jats:p>Type:journal articleJournal:Motivation and EmotionScopus© Citations 3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Who fits into the digital workplace? Mapping digital self-efficacy and agility onto psychological traits(2022-02); Scopus© Citations 120 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Clothes make the leader! How leaders can use attire to impact followers’ perceptions of charisma and approval(2021-01); Scopus© Citations 31 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Visual Attention in Real‐World Conversation: Gaze Patterns Are Modulated by Communication and Group Size(2020-11-17); Scopus© Citations 31 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, From self-report to behavior: Mapping charisma onto naturalistic gaze patterns(2020-01)Scopus© Citations 13