Delivering bad news to followers: leaders' cognitive reappraisal vs. suppression requests on followers' emotion regulation and leader-follower relations

Bayazıt, Mahmut and Czukor, Gergely and Dural Şenoğuz, Uzay and Özalp Türetgen, İlknur (2015) Delivering bad news to followers: leaders' cognitive reappraisal vs. suppression requests on followers' emotion regulation and leader-follower relations. [Working Paper / Technical Report] Sabanci University ID:UNSPECIFIED

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Abstract

We investigated the effects of leaders’ emotional regulation request (suppression or cognitive reappraisal) on follower’s felt and expressed anger and attitudes, as well as the effect of follower’s expressed anger on leaders’ attitudes toward followers. Study 1 using a 2x3 experimental design, examined the role of a hypothetical female/male leader’s suppression/cognitive-reappraisal request following the delivery of bad news on followers’ (229 undergraduates) felt/expressed anger and attitudes toward the leader. Results indicated that leader’s reappraisal request was more successful in decreasing felt anger compared to a control condition as well as decreasing expressed anger compared to both suppression request and control condition. Female leaders who requested suppression were evaluated less favorably than male leaders when followers held stereotypical attitudes towards female leadership. Study 2 showed that leaders’ (n = 32 executives) are more likely to perceive the expressed anger of followers’ and develop negative attitudes towards them following a suppression versus a reappraisal request. We found that regardless of followers’ gender, leaders’ attitudes were more positive when perceived follower anger was low.
Item Type: Working Paper / Technical Report
Uncontrolled Keywords: Leadership; Emotion Regulation; Anger; Gender; Implicit Attitudes
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HM Sociology > HM1001-1281 Social psychology
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD0058.7-58.95 Organizational behavior, change and effectiveness. Corporate culture
Divisions: Sabancı Business School
Sabancı Business School > Organization
Depositing User: Mahmut Bayazıt
Date Deposited: 18 Dec 2015 15:24
Last Modified: 26 Apr 2022 10:52
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/27923

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