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Who’s More Powerful? King vs. Knight: Relative Influence of CEO vs. Team Leader on Emotional Contagion and Performance

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Computer Applications for Graphics, Grid Computing, and Industrial Environment (CGAG 2012, GDC 2012, IESH 2012)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 351))

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Organizations are neither isolated nor insulated from emotional display. This paper examines the emotional contagion between a leader and followers and its impact on performance, and tries to answer the question of “What should leaders do, express positive emotions or negative emotions?”. I test the emotional contagion effects of leader-follower relationship, using two contextual variables – organizational and team performance – and take the different hierarchical position of leaders into consideration. Moreover, this paper determines in which circumstance among four scenarios described in the paper the followers converge emotionally more to CEO vs team leader.

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  1. Graduate School of Business, Yonsei University, Seoul, 120-749, South Korea

    Eunsung Lee

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  1. GVSA and University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia

    Tai-hoon Kim

  2. Chungwoon University, 350-701, Chungnam, Republic of Korea

    Hyun-seob Cho

  3. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Via Vanvitelli, 1, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  4. Information Assurance Center, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 878809, 85287-8809, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Stephen S. Yau

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Lee, E. (2012). Who’s More Powerful? King vs. Knight: Relative Influence of CEO vs. Team Leader on Emotional Contagion and Performance. In: Kim, Th., Cho, Hs., Gervasi, O., Yau, S.S. (eds) Computer Applications for Graphics, Grid Computing, and Industrial Environment. CGAG GDC IESH 2012 2012 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 351. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35600-1_48

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