Time: From 15:00 PM, 14th October 2019 (Monday) 

Location: Room 1722, Rear main Building 

Speaker: She Zhuolin, PhD student, Department of Leadership and Organization Management, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University

Topic：When a narcissistic leader manages a narcissistic follower: Why and when does this harm performance-quality?

Abstract：Drawing from Dominance Complementarity Theory, this study proposed and empirically tested the impact of pairing narcissistic leaders with narcissistic followers on followers’ performance-quality. Hierarchical linear modeling results from a multisource, time-lagged (three-wave) survey of 102 leaders and 529 corresponding followers showed, as we hypothesized, that: (1) when leaders are more rather than less narcissistic, their followers generally perform more poorly; (2) the latter negative association between leader narcissism and followers’ performance-quality is stronger when high levels of narcissism characterize, both, followers and their leader (rather than only the leader)— which we call the “leader- and -follower-narcissist effect”; (3) the “leader-and-follower-narcissist effect” is mediated by the extent to which followers perceive relational conflict between themselves and their leaders; and (4) consistent with Goal Congruence Theory, these relationships weaken when followers perceive that they have (rather than lack) goal-congruence with their leader. Implications for how to effectively manage narcissists (followers as well as leaders) in organizations are discussed.

About the speaker: She Zhuolin is a PhD student of the Department of Leadership and Organization Management, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, and a co-doctoral student of the University of Washington (Seattle). His domestic tutor is Professor Yang Bin and Professor Yang Baiyin, and the foreign tutor is Professor Chen Xiaoping.  His research interests include leadership and career management. His results are published in Journal of Vocational Behavior, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Journal of Managerial Psychology,  Science of Science and Management of Science and Technology and other mainstream management academic journals at home and abroad. During the doctoral study, he won the national Scholarship for graduate students for four consecutive years, and was awarded the outstanding Student Leader of Tsinghua University, the Outstanding Moral Education Assistant of Tsinghua University and other series of honors.