Name: Claire Burnett

Ph.D. Dissertation Proposal Meeting

Date: Tuesday, April 9th, 2024

Time: 2:00 pm

Location: Virtual, click here to join  

Dissertation Chair/Advisor:

Keaton Fletcher, Ph.D. (Georgia Tech/Colorado State University)

Dissertation Committee Members:

Katie Badura, Ph.D. (Georgia Tech)

Michael Braun, Ph.D. (DePaul University)

Paul Verhaeghen, Ph.D. (Georgia Tech)

Christopher Wiese, Ph.D. (Georgia Tech)

Title: Self-other Congruence In Informal Leadership Emergence Ratings: An Empirical Examination Of Affective Outcomes

Abstract: As the use of multi-source feedback for leadership becomes increasingly common in organizations, it is important to consider how discrepancies in some of these sources might impact the focal leader. Further, as the prevalence of informal work teams increases, so does the necessity to understand how discrepancies in self- and others’- perceptions of emergent leadership might impact affect and, consequently, group dynamics and job performance. Participants will complete a leaderless, four-person team task. The proposed lab study will examine participants’ affect before and after the team task, in addition to their perceptions of their own and each team member’s leadership emergence. Participants will also rate their own desire to emerge as a leader. Using multilevel polynomial regression and response surface modeling, the purpose of the proposed study is to investigate the impact of self-other congruence in ratings of emergent leadership on positive and negative affect, with additional exploration of potential boundary conditions (i.e., gender and desire to emerge as a leader). This study seeks to contribute novel insights to the field of leadership studies, particularly in informal settings. This exploration is not just about reinforcing the understanding of leadership dynamics but also about unearthing the nuanced relationships between perception alignment and affect.