CP_Personality_Ldrshp_Data.sav

In a between-subjects experiment, we examined whether employees’ engagement in the two forms of contextual performance (interpersonal facilitation and job dedication) affected inferences about their personality traits and ratings of their leadership emergence and effectiveness. We also examined whether the effect of interpersonal facilitation on perceived agreeableness, and of agreeableness on leadership emergence, were moderated by target gender. As predicted, extraversion and agreeableness mediated the relationship between interpersonal facilitation and leadership emergence, though no effects of target gender emerged. Contrary to predictions, conscientiousness did not mediate the relationship between target job dedication and leadership effectiveness. Ultimately, by performing interpersonal facilitation, women and men employees may be able to increase others’ confidence in their potential as leaders through personality inferences