Prestigious vs. Dominant Leadership From the Perspective of Followers
Bildiriler > Özet Bildiri · 2021
Yazarlar: Gülfem Sarı, İbrahim Mert TEKÖZEL, Sezer RENGİİYİLER
15th European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Conference, POLONYA, Krakow, Uluslararası, Poster, Özet Bildiri, 2021-2021, ss 125-125
Özet
<p>Recent research has demonstrated that people are predisposed to use two main strategies to attain a higher rank in social groups: a) dominance, (attaining a higher rank via using intimidation and coercion with a selfish attitude in terms of the judicious distribution of group resources); b) prestige, (attaining a higher rank via displaying valuable knowledge and skill with a fair attitude which favors public goals) (Case & Manner, 2016). In this study, we aimed to discover how followers are evaluating two different leadership styles and whether social exclusion and self-involvement levels have an impact on those evaluations. Using the Cyberball paradigm (Williams, 2006), we created two between-subject conditions: exclusion and inclusion. After “social exclusion” manipulation, all participants were asked to imagine that they are a member of a volunteer group which consist of a leader and members. Then participants have been provided with several hypothetical behaviors of the leader changes in terms of leadership style (dominant vs. prestigious) and self-involvement (behaviors intended to participant’s her/him selves vs. group as a whole). They rated the favorability of all behaviors on a Likert-scale. Results showed that regardless of social exclusion and involvement level, participants showed a tendency to favor the prestigious behaviors of the leader than the dominant ones. As service-for-prestige theory suggested (Van Vungt & Price, 2014), the relationship between follower and leader can be seen as collective action problem. Our results support this idea as our followers (participants) have appreciated prestigious leader behaviors who seek public good in all experimental conditions.</p>