Worries about leadership: Examining the role of career stage, gender, and personal resources

IF 3.4 3区管理学 Q2 MANAGEMENT

European Management Review Pub Date : 2024-04-18 DOI:10.1111/emre.12648

Gustavo M. Tavares, Tatiana Iwai

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Worries about leadership (WAL) play a key role in explaining why so many individuals are not interested in pursuing leadership positions. However, less is known about how WAL evolves throughout one's career. We address this issue by examining individuals' worries about failure (WF) and worries about work–life imbalance (WWLI)—two dimensions of WAL—at different career stages and the role of perceived lack of personal resources relevant for leadership in increasing WAL. Moreover, we explore the moderating effect of gender on the relationship among career stage, personal resources, and WAL. Using a heterogeneous sample of professionals from different hierarchical levels (n = 487), our results show a decline in WF as individuals advance in their careers, whereas WWLI remains consistently higher. Importantly, WWLI becomes remarkably high for women in mid‐to‐late career stages compared to men. Furthermore, having fewer personal resources is associated with greater WAL, particularly affecting women.

查看原文本刊更多论文

对领导力的担忧：考察职业阶段、性别和个人资源的作用

对领导力的担忧（WAL）是解释为什么许多人对担任领导职务不感兴趣的一个关键因素。然而，人们对 WAL 在整个职业生涯中如何演变知之甚少。为了解决这个问题，我们研究了个人在不同职业阶段对失败的担忧（WF）和对工作与生活失衡的担忧（WWLI）--领导力担忧的两个维度，以及感知到的与领导力相关的个人资源缺乏在增加领导力担忧中的作用。此外，我们还探讨了性别对职业阶段、个人资源和 WAL 之间关系的调节作用。通过对来自不同层级的专业人士（n = 487）进行异质样本分析，我们的结果显示，随着个人职业生涯的发展，WF 会下降，而 WWLI 则会持续走高。重要的是，与男性相比，处于职业生涯中后期的女性的世界工作生活指数明显更高。此外，个人资源越少，WAL 越高，对女性的影响尤为明显。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

European Management Review MANAGEMENT-

CiteScore

7.20

自引率

13.50%

发文量

期刊介绍： The European Management Review is an international journal dedicated to advancing the understanding of management in private and public sector organizations through empirical investigation and theoretical analysis. The European Management Review provides an international forum for dialogue between researchers, thereby improving the understanding of the nature of management in different settings and promoting the transfer of research results to management practice. Although one of the European Management Review"s aims is to foster the general advancement of management scholarship among European scholars and/or those academics interested in European management issues.