Authentic leadership and relational power increasing employee performance: A systematic review of “leadership and power” as a positive dyadic relationship

Authors

  • Tiffany Strom Concordia University Wisconsin, 12800 North Lake Shore Drive, Mequon, WI 53097, USA

Abstract

The objective of this study was to explore the relationship of positive leadership and positive power on increasing employee performance in the context of small firms using authentic leadership and relational power as theoretical lenses. An evidence-informed review was provided to examine the proposed objective and a systematic literature review was conducted to determine the priori model, and to present an emergent model after a synthesis of the findings. The qualitative and quantitative studies revealed four thematic topics to represent the relationship: (1) employee engagement relies on perception and trust; (2) positive characteristics of a leader need to exist in order to enhance the positive use of power; (3) positive leadership and power relationship exists in the short term through empowerment; and (4) positive leadership and power together increase the long-term outcomes of organizational identification, organizational commitment, and firm performance. This research was intended to investigate and synthesize a small firm relationship with the leader, manager, and employees as described herein, and to provide a new lens for authentic leadership and relational power by adding positivity as a part of the moral framework.

Downloads

Published

2020-11-19

Issue

Vol. 30 No. 3 (2020)

Section

Articles

License

Copyright (c) 2020 Tiffany Strom

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The Journal of Small Business Strategy (the “Publisher”) and the Author(s) agree as follows:
 
1.Author(s) hereby grant to Publisher all right, title, and interest in and to the Work, including copyright to all means of expression by any method now known or hereafter developed, including electronic format. If Publisher does not publish the Work within two (2) years of the Effective Date, copyright shall revert back to the Author. Publisher agrees to always credit Author(s) as the author(s) of the Work.
 
2.Publisher hereby grants Author a royalty-free, limited license for the following purposes, provided the Work is always identified as having first been published by Publisher.
    •The right to make and distribute copies of all or part of the Work for use in teaching;
    •The right to use all or part of the material contained in the Work in a book by the Author(s), or in a collection of the Author(s)’s work;
    •The right to use and distribute the Work internally at the Author(s)’s place of employment, and for promotion and any other non-commercial purposes;
    •The right to use figures and tables from the Work for any purpose;
    •The right to make presentations of material from the Work;
    •The right to use and distribute the Work on the Author(s)’s Web site and on the Author(s)’s university’s institute repository;
Such license shall be effective when the Work is first published in the Journal of Small Business Strategy.
 
3.The Author(s) represents and warrants that the Work: (a) is the Author(s)’s original work and that Author(s) has full power to enter into this agreement; (b) does not infringe the copyright or property right of another; (c) contains no materials which is obscene, libelous, defamatory or violates another’s civil right, right of privacy, or is otherwise unlawful; and (d) has not been previously published, in whole or in part. Author(s) shall indemnify and hold Publisher harmless against loss or expenses arising from breach of any such warranties.

How to Cite

Authentic leadership and relational power increasing employee performance: A systematic review of “leadership and power” as a positive dyadic relationship. (2020). Journal of Small Business Strategy (archive Only), 30(3), 86-101. https://libjournals.mtsu.edu/index.php/jsbs/article/view/1315