Bringing Leading Back in Leadership: Behavioral Approaches to Leadership

This symposium seeks to highlight recent trends away from stylistic approaches to more concrete behavioral approaches of leadership (van Knippenberg & Sitkin, 2013). Papers in this symposium advance knowledge in this area through a methodologically inclusive lens by synthesizing major streams of research on how leaders’ blaming behavior affects followers, examining how leader awareness can affect organizational commitment, tackling the paradox of leader humility, expanding our understanding of how leaders can care for the well-being of others during times of suffering, and establishing ways leaders can increase their wise reasoning. The purpose of this symposium is to highlight emerging leadership research that utilizes behavioral approaches, with the aim of facilitating greater consideration of the possibilities and consequences around leadership behaviors and their implications for leadership development.