The Thin Line Between Empowering and Laissez-Faire Leadership: An Expectancy-Match Perspective [PDF]
Empowering leadership and laissez-faire leadership are generally thought to represent quite different leadership styles—the former more active and directed in follower development and the latter more passive and dismissive of followers’ needs. The present study questions this sharp differentiation.
Wong, Sut I, Giessner, Steffen
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Leadership Styles Among Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Analysis Within the Full Range Leadership Framework [PDF]
Background/Objective: Leadership in nursing has been conceptualized as a multidimensional construct influencing organisational functioning and professional practice.
Cátia Moreira +3 more
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The Laissez-Faire Leadership Paradox – The Invisible Heavy Hand
In French, laissez-faire means “letting people do whatever they want.” As a leadership style, it is conventionally associated with minimal guidance, allowing employees to make decisions on their own. We challenge this idea, however, based on three studies (Nall = 946) conducted in the United States and Hungary, finding that laissez-faire leaders exert ...
Janos Salamon +3 more
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An examination of "nonleadership": From laissez-faire leadership to leader reward omission and punishment omission. [PDF]
Laissez-faire leadership has received much less attention than have the 3 transactional leadership dimensions of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ). However, laissez-faire leadership has shown strong negative relationships with various leadership criteria, and the absence of leadership (laissez-faire leadership) may be just as important as ...
Hinkin, Timothy R. +1 more
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Laissez‐faire leadership, red tape and the meaningful work paradox
While meaningful work is widely recognised as a driver of job satisfaction, the role of leadership style and bureaucratic constraints in shaping this relationship remains underexplored. This study addresses this gap by investigating how laissez‐faire leadership and red tape moderate the ...
Abid Hussain, Esme Franken
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Betydningen av individuelle kjennetegn i møte med laissez-faire-ledelse [The importance of individual characteristics in the face of laissez-faire leadership] [PDF]
The aim of this study was to examine laissez-faire leadership as a predictor of role ambiguity in the workplace. It also endeavoured to uncover whether occupational self-efficacy and competence uncertainty moderated this relationship. In a sample of 386 Norwegian employees who were also students at Folkeuniversitetet, laissez-faire leadership showed a ...
Ingrid Kjølberg Evensen +4 more
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Stance of numerous leadership styles and their effect on teaching to sustain academic performance at the high school level [PDF]
The present study focused on three leadership, autocratic, democratic, and Laissez-faire, to sustain high school academic performance. To accomplish this, we used quantitative survey method and employed convenient sampling technique to collect data from ...
Samra Maqbool +5 more
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“Direct Me or Leave Me”: The Effect of Leadership Style on Stress and Self-Efficacy of Healthcare Professionals [PDF]
This study aims to investigate the influence of leadership on the self-efficacy of healthcare professionals. Additionally, it seeks to explore whether stress mediates the relationship between leadership and self-efficacy.
Stefan Milojević +2 more
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Development of the Chinese coaches’ autonomy-supportive—laissez-faire coaching style scale [PDF]
IntroductionThe autonomy-supportive coaching style is recognized for its positive impact on athletes’ well-being and performance. However, the transition of excessive autonomy into a laissez-faire coaching style has not been thoroughly examined within ...
Wen Su +4 more
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Laissez-faire leadership: a comprehensive systematic review for effective education practices [PDF]
This analysis addresses the knowledge gap on laissez-faire leadership in organizations. After reviewing 64 articles through the systematic literature review, the study finds that laissez-faire leadership, marked by minimal decision-making involvement, is generally associated with negative outcomes like reduced employee satisfaction and productivity ...
Faisal Kamal +2 more
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