Tournier, Constance (2022) Regulatory Orientations and Leadership Styles: A Regulatory Fit Perspective. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
This paper examines the implications of a regulatory fit between two regulatory orientations namely assessment (orientation toward evaluation of alternatives) and locomotion (orientation with regards to the goal of movement) and two leadership styles, namely advisory (represented by “counselling” influences) and forceful (represented by “directive” influences). Using a word anagram task, we proposed that the higher the regulatory fit (including variables such as effectiveness and satisfaction of the participants), the more a locomotor will feel related to a forceful leader and the more an assessor will feel in accordance with an advisory leader, leading to greater satisfaction, respectively. We also hypothesized that assessors would dedicate more effort to the task. Two conditions, specifically the advisory and the forceful conditions, were constructed with scripts and instructions with the aim of getting a regulatory fit. Based on a sample of 99 participants, we did not find any significant results regarding our hypotheses. However, supplementary analysis reveals that scoring high on locomotion and spending more time on the task increased regulatory fit (satisfaction, effectiveness, etc.). Additionally, participants assigned to the forceful condition spent less time on the task. Also, participants assigned to the advisory condition scored significantly higher on assessment. We are not able to support other findings discovered regarding whether leaderships styles match individuals’ regulatory orientations and we discuss limitations and suggest further investigation. Keywords: leadership styles, regulatory orientations, regulatory fit
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Gutzkow, B. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology (WOP) [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Jan 2022 08:28 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Feb 2022 15:18 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/95 |
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