Formulating expectations in times of crisis: The role of inspirational leadership

• Autor(a) principal: Sousa, Leila Joana Marta de
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/29905
• topic: Market crisis; Dependência -- Dependency; Organizações -- Organizations; Expectations; Motivation; Inspirational leadership; Crise de mercado; Expectativas; Motivação; Liderança

Due to its pivot role as a driving force within organizations, leadership has gained extensive attention in the field of organizational studies and has a lot of influence over the processes that shape a team’s expectations in the workplace, ultimately improving overall organizational performance and effectiveness, especially in a time of crisis. This study is designed to test the joint effects from perceived market crisis and individual motivation on both negative and positive expectations, and how inspirational leadership can modulate these effects. With a sample of 150 individuals, the hypotheses testing using PLS-SEM showed market crisis perception only predicts positive expectations when leadership is inspirational, and that positive expectations are predicted both by intrinsic and extrinsic motivations while negative expectations are predicted only by amotivation. Results suggest a novel role for inspirational leadership that goes counter to the one expected.