Collaborative Research: Leader Behaviors and Experiences across Life Domains

担任领导职务的人代表着国家劳动力的一个大群体，他们的行为不仅影响组织的有效性，还影响到人们在非工作领域的繁荣和福利。尽管它们很重要，但以往的研究对非工作领域的关注有限，包括家庭、社区和个人生活，这些背景是领导角色占据、领导发展和领导行为日常变化的前因后果。该项目采用生命周期和整体方法来分析非工作领域变量，如社区参与和志愿活动，如何导致领导角色占据并受到领导角色占据的影响。此外，该项目提供了关于非工作领域经验如何促进领导力发展以及领导力发展如何有助于领导者在其他非工作领域的成长和繁荣的重要见解。最后，该项目将有助于揭示领导者的日常行为和他们的非工作领域经验如何以及何时相互影响。这些发现将为寻求促进领导力以促进其经济竞争力的商业组织提供信息，也将向社会提供关于一种背景下的领导力如何更广泛地促进组织福利的信息。我们对一种组织背景中的领导力如何影响更广泛的领导力和工作行为，或者多个领域中领导力之间的相互关系知之甚少。本项目将采用多方法方法，进行三项实证研究。首先，该项目将使用美国劳工统计局收集的档案数据(全国青年纵向调查，NLSY 79，NLSY 79，NLSY 97)来研究个人的非工作经历和他们在工作中担任领导角色是如何相互影响的。该项目将使用混合潜在马尔可夫模型来捕捉和预测领导角色转换模式。其次，该项目将使用收集多波、多源数据的纵向设计，使用潜在变化得分模型来检验领导者的非工作经验与他们的领导发展过程之间的相互作用。第三项研究从个人角度分析了领导者的工作和非工作经历和行为在日常生活中是如何相互联系的。该项目将在连续10天内进行体验抽样研究，捕捉领导者工作和非工作行为的波动，以及以较长时间间隔进行的调查所遗漏的经验；它将使用动态结构方程建模(DSEM)进行数据分析。最后，通过使用不同方法对三项研究的结果进行三角测量，该项目将促进更全面地了解领导者的工作经验和非工作经验如何在不同的时间框架和生命阶段相互影响。该项目的发现将为有关领导力的组织理论提供信息，以及关注工作和非工作领域之间相互作用的生命历程视角，特别是关于领导力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Individuals in leadership roles represent a large group of the nation’s workforce, and their behaviors not only affect organizational effectiveness but also influence the prosperity and welfare of people in their nonwork domains. Despite their importance, prior research has paid limited attention to the nonwork domain, including family, community, and personal life, contexts that are antecedents and consequences of leadership role occupancy, leadership development, and day-to-day variation of leadership behaviors. This project takes a life-span and holistic approach to analyze how nonwork domain variables, such as community involvement and volunteering activities, lead to and are shaped by leadership role occupancy. Further, the project provides critical insights on how nonwork domain experiences might promote leadership development and how leadership development might contribute to leaders’ growth and thriving in other nonwork domains. Lastly, the project will help to uncover how and when leaders’ day-to-day behaviors and their nonwork domain experiences mutually influence each other. These findings will inform business organizations seeking to promote leadership to facilitate their economic competitiveness, and will also inform society regarding how leadership in one context may contribute to the welfare of organizations more generally.We know very little regarding how leadership in one organizational context may influence leadership and work behavior more generally, or the reciprocal relationships between leadership in multiple domains. Adopting a multi-method approach, this project will conduct three empirical studies. First, the project will use archival data (National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, NLSY) collected by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (NLSY 79, NLSY 79 Children and Young Adults, and NLSY 97) to examine how individuals’ nonwork experiences and their leadership role occupancy at work influence each other reciprocally. The project will use mixture latent Markov modeling to capture and predict the leadership role transition patterns. Second, the project will use a longitudinal design collecting multi-wave, multi-source data to examine the interplay between leaders’ nonwork experiences and their leadership development processes using latent change score models. The third study takes a within-person perspective and analyzes how leaders’ work and nonwork experiences and behaviors are interconnected on a daily basis. The project will conduct an experience sampling study over 10 consecutive days, capturing fluctuations of leaders’ work and nonwork behaviors and experiences that are otherwise missed by surveys separated by longer time intervals; it will use dynamic structural equation modeling (DSEM) in data analysis. Lastly, by triangulating findings of three studies using different methods, the project will promote a more comprehensive understanding of how leaders’ work and nonwork experience affect each other across different time frames and life stages. Findings from the project will inform organizational theories regarding leadership, as well as life course perspectives that focus on the interplay between work and non-work domains, especially regarding leadership.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.