Boas Shamir’s research while affiliated with Hebrew University of Jerusalem and other places

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Publications (95)


Chapter 3 “What’s Your Story?” A Life-Stories Approach to Authentic Leadership Development
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October 2018

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Boas Shamir

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Galit Eilam-Shamir

In this paper, we first develop the concepts of authentic leaders, authentic leadership, and authentic leader development. We suggest a definition of authentic leaders, which is based on the leader’s self-concept: his or her self-knowledge, self-concept clarity, self-concordance, and person-role merger, and on the extent to which the leader’s self-concept is expressed in his or her behavior. Following, we offer a life-story approach to the development of authentic leaders. We argue that authentic leadership rests heavily on the self-relevant meanings the leader attaches to his or her life experiences, and these meanings are captured in the leader’s life-story. We suggest that self-knowledge, self-concept clarity, and person-role merger are derived from the life-story. Therefore, the construction of a life-story is a major element in the development of authentic leaders. We further argue that the life-story provides followers with a major source of information on which to base their judgments about the leader’s authenticity. We conclude by drawing some practical implications from this approach and presenting suggestions for further research.


Chapter 1 The Motivational Effects of Charismatic Leadership: A Self-Concept Based Theory
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October 2018

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The empirical literature on charismatic or transformational leadership demonstrates that such leadership has profound effects on followers. However, while several versions of charismatic leadership theory predict such effects, none of them explains the process by which these effects are achieved. In this paper we seek to advance leadership theory by addressing this fundamental problem. We offer a self-concept based motivational theory to explain the process by which charismatic leader behaviors cause profound transformational effects on followers. The theory presents the argument that charismatic leadership has its effects by strongly engaging followers’ self-concepts in the interest of the mission articulated by the leader. We derive from this theory testable propositions about (a) the behavior of charismatic leaders and their effects on followers, (b) the role of followers’ values and orientations in the charismatic relationship, and (c) some of the organizational conditions that favor the emergence and effectiveness of charismatic leaders.

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Chapter 6 The Charismatic Relationship: Alternative Explanations and Predictions

October 2018

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This paper reviews and compares six theoretical explanations of the effects of charismatic leaders on their followers. Of the six explanations two are based on psychoanalytic theory, two on attribution theory, one on a sociological theory of symbolic centers, and one on the social psychology of the self-concept. The review exposes differences among the explanations in their motivational assumptions, their predictions regarding leader behaviors and effects on followers, and the mediating mechanisms they posit between leader behaviors and effects on followers. The most critical differences are highlighted and suggested as foci of future research on charismatic leadership.


Chapter 10 Social Distance and Charisma: Theoretical Notes and an Exploratory Study

October 2018

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The article addresses the relationship between social distance and charismatic leadership. Current theories of charismatic leadership in organizations have borrowed ideas from the literature on socially distant charismatic leaders and applied them to leadership situations that involve direct contacts between leaders and their immediate subordinates. This article argues that while social distance is not a necessary condition for charismatic leadership, there are fundamental differences between distant charismatic leadership and close charismatic leadership. The article attempts to identify these differences through a theoretical analysis of the two leadership situations and through an exploratory content analysis of interviews about close and distant charismatic leaders.





Figure 1B: The intellectual landscape of the socio-scientific study of charisma  
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Figure 1B: An author co-citation map of the socio-scientific study of charisma  
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Figure 2: Publishing Trends: Number of articles using the term " charisma " or variants  
Charisma: An Ill-Defined and Ill-Measured Gift

April 2016

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Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior

We take historical stock of charisma, tracing its origins and how it has been conceptualized in the sociological and organizational sciences literatures. Although charisma has been intensely studied, the concept is still not well understood and much of the research undertaken cannot inform policy. We show that the major obstacles to advancing our understanding of charisma have included issues with its definition, its confusion with transformational leadership, the use of questionnaire measures, and that it has not been studied using correctly specified causal models. To help spawn a new genre of research on charisma, we use signaling theory to provide a general definition of charisma, and make suggestions about how charisma should be conceptualized, operationalized, and modeled. We also describe trends and patterns in articles we reviewed, using cocitation as well as bibliometric analyses, and discuss the practical implications of our findings.



Citations (86)


... Nevertheless, if the context dimensions to be included in the theories are carefully chosen to represent factors that potentially apply to many different situations, and their understanding is well developed in the social sciences (e.g., power, status, legitimacy, structure), then the indigenous leadership theories that include these dimensions may provide us with a better understanding of the indigenous leadership phenomenon. Shamir (2013) suggested that indigenous leadership studies should be complemented by comparative studies that do not focus on a single context but examine and compare manifestations of leadership in different contexts, again with the purpose of inductively deriving theoretical propositions from their findings and insights. ...

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A Research Conception on Indigenous Chinese Leadership: Based on Comparative Case Studies on Political Elites in Ancient China
Leadership in Context and Context in Leadership Studies
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  • December 2012

... It represents individual members' perceived sense of belonging to a particular team. According to the self-concept-based theory of leadership [56], effective leaders are very adept at fostering employee group identification; hence, we hypothesized that: ...

Chapter 6 The Charismatic Relationship: Alternative Explanations and Predictions
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  • October 2018

... Mereka menekankan perlunya keterlibatan faktor-faktor kontekstual dan situasional dalam mengevaluasi kontribusi kepemimpinan emosional terhadap kinerja. Pembenaran tersebut didukung oleh penyataan (Shamir and Eilam-Shamir, 2018) Mereka menyoroti bahwa kepemimpinan emosional tidak selalu menjamin kinerja yang lebih baik, dan bahwa faktor-faktor lain seperti visi kepemimpinan yang jelas dan integritas mungkin lebih penting dalam mencapai hasil kerja yang optimal. ...

Chapter 3 “What’s Your Story?” A Life-Stories Approach to Authentic Leadership Development
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  • October 2018

... The negative effect found in this study can be understood with the approach proposed by Shamir and Howell (2018). When the organizational climate is not supportive, individuals tend to be motivated to increase their commitment as a form of compensation for a less-than-ideal environment. ...

Chapter 11 Organizational and Contextual Influences on the Emergence and Effectiveness of Charismatic Leadership
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  • October 2018

... However, a wider span of control-more employees led per founder--reduces the positive effect of founders' entrepreneurial role modeling because of less contact time (Schyns et al., 2010). For instance, an increasing number of employees may no longer directly observe a founder's day-to-day entrepreneurial actions, leading to weaker levels of identification and emulation (Newman et al., 2018;Shamir, 1995). Then, leaders' belief systems and behaviors are less likely to be transferred to their followers by serving an example of entrepreneurial action (Cole et al., 2009). ...

Chapter 10 Social Distance and Charisma: Theoretical Notes and an Exploratory Study
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  • October 2018

... Semakin baik Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB), semakin tinggi kinerja karyawan. Hasil penelitian ini mendukung penelitian sebelumnya dari Shamir et al. (2018), bahwa perilaku menolong dapat meningkatkan kinerja. Temuan penelitian mendukung Tautan (2010). ...

Chapter 1 The Motivational Effects of Charismatic Leadership: A Self-Concept Based Theory

... Moreover LMX was also recommended by the Khan et al. (2020) the findings of the current study confirm the recommendations of Stafford et al., (2014); Khan et al. (2020). Leaders have to build better working relationship with their subordinates and these relationships must be based on trust, respect, loyalty and professional respect (Shamir, Arthur & House, 2018). ...

Chapter 2 The Rhetoric of Charismatic Leadership: A Theoretical Extension, a Case Study, and Implications for Research

... Leader identification. Leader identification was measured on a 7-item scale developed by Shamir et al. (1998). A sample item for leader identification is "I am proud to be under my leader's command." ...

Correlates of Charismatic Leader Behavior in Military Units: Subordinates' Attitudes, Unit Characteristics, And Superiors' Appraisals of Leader Performance

Academy of Management Journal

... Transformational leadership (TL) has been widely recognized for its positive influence on educational outcomes, yet several studies suggest that its effectiveness can vary significantly based on contextual factors. For example, while Sánchez-García et al. [60] and Dvir et al. [80] emphasize the impact of TL on students' emotional and physical well-being in physical education, other studies point to limitations in TL when applied in rigid institutional frameworks. These limitations could include difficulties implementing long-term vision due to immediate operational needs or challenges in maintaining the balance between inspiring change and ensuring stability. ...

Impact of Transformational Leadership on Follower Development and Performance: A Field Experiment
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  • August 2002

Academy of Management Journal

... Kelly (2008Kelly ( , 2014) goes as far as to suggest that traditional theorizing represents a 'categorical error' and needs to be reconceptualized from an ontological basis. Within critique of AL theorizing, Smolovic Jones and Grint (2013) echo Kelly's challenge in questioning the ontological basis of authenticity as it is applied to leadership, citing three difficulties: the veracity problem (the inherent impossibility of being 'true' to oneself when taking up a role such as leading which by its nature requires one to take others into account), the essentialist problem (the impossibility of there being one true self to which one can be authentic) and the normative problem (the extent to which contemporary AL theorizing amalgamates morality with authenticity, an issue also raised by Ladkin and Taylor (2010) and empirically by Eilam Shamir and Shamir (2013)). Indeed, it can be reasonably asserted that much AL theorizing is based on its intuitive appeal to generic notions of positivity that are grounded in little more than 'folk psychology' ( Dennett, 1991). ...

Essay: Life stories, personal ambitions and authenticity: Can leaders be authentic without pursuing the 'higher good'?
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  • October 2013