Leaders’ Facial Features as a Potential Source of Information for Prospective Team Members

• Main Authors: ONG, Lay See, PARK, Guihyun Grace, FRANC, Michal, LI, Norman P.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1668; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2925/viewcontent/Leaders_Facial_Features_as_a_Potential_S.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We examined how facial features of team-leaders influence the perception of the team’s social environment by prospective team-members. Finding: highly dominant-looking leaders are related to perceptions of high-vertical and low-horizontal team mobility. We highlight the significance in understanding...