Kolk, Loes, van der (2022) When leadership style matches one’s regulatory orientation: a regulatory fit effect. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
The current study focuses on the effects of a leader matching a person’s regulatory orientation on regulatory fit. The study concentrates on two regulatory orientations, namely assessors (people that want to do good and be actively involved) and locomotors (people who prefer quick work with less thinking) and two leadership styles: authoritarian and participatory. The first can be described as forceful and directive, and the second as more advisory. When the regulatory orientation is combined with the right leader that increases the feelings of satisfaction and effectiveness, a state of regulatory fit is realized. To examine this effect, the participants in the study made a word anagram task. Beforehand, they received instructions from either an authoritarian or a participatory leader that both came with a specific script. Expectations were that more regulatory fit would be experienced when assessors were assigned to a participatory leader and locomotors to an authoritarian leader. Second, it was hypothesized that assessors would spend more time on the task and write down more words than locomotors. According to the results, no evidence is found for none of these expectations. However, further exploratory analysis display that being assigned to the participatory condition provoked an assessment orientation and that either higher scores on locomotion or more time spent on the task increased the experienced regulatory fit.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Gutzkow, B. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Cognitive Psychology and Psychophysiology (CPP) [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Jan 2022 08:26 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Feb 2022 15:15 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/100 |
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