12/12/2017

Should Leaders Be More Humble? Sometimes, Yes

A humble leader can help drive creativity within an organization

You may have a certain vision of leadership in your head—powerful, decisive, authoritative.

But humble? That might seem a little less expected. However, a study recently featured in the Journal of Applied Psychology makes the case that expectation is everything when it comes to the relationship you have with your employees.

The study—a collaboration between researchers at Ohio State University, Portland State University, and China’s Renmin University—analyzed 72 teams of people at information technology companies in China, first having the members of those teams rate the humility of their leaders over six categories. The initial analysis also looked into the “power distance” between the leaders and their team members—how the disparity in authority affected the team’s relationship with their leader.

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