Within self-managing teams, do prosocial or impression management motives matter for leadership emergence? Although previous research has acknowledged the importance of prosocial and impression management motives across various interpersonal contexts, such motives have received little attention within the context of self-managing teams and could provide insights into the drivers of leadership emergence. The current research examines individual prosocial and impression management motives as predictors of leadership emergence, considering individual task coordination behavior—a group-serving behavior critical for leadership emergence—as a key moderator of the relationships between motives and leadership emergence. Drawing on insights from social psychology, we hypothesized that prosocial motivation would be positively related to leadership emergence regardless of the amount of task coordination behavior performed, whereas impression management motives would only predict leadership emergence when coupled with high levels of individual task coordination behavior. Hypotheses were tested and supported using a sample of 49 leaderless teams within an assessment center context. Our results help to clarify if and when prosocial and impression management motives matter for leadership emergence.

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动机和任务协调对领导涌现的交互作用。

在自我管理团队中，亲社会或印象管理动机对领导力的出现是否重要？尽管之前的研究已经承认亲社会和印象管理动机在各种人际关系环境中的重要性，但在自我管理团队的背景下，这种动机很少受到关注，并且可以提供对领导力涌现驱动因素的见解。目前的研究将个人亲社会和印象管理动机作为领导力涌现的预测因素，将个人任务协调行为（一种对领导力涌现至关重要的群体服务行为）视为动机与领导力涌现之间关系的关键调节因素。借鉴社会心理学的见解，我们假设无论执行的任务协调行为的数量如何，亲社会动机都会与领导力的出现呈正相关，而印象管理动机只会在与高水平的个人任务协调行为相结合时预测领导力的出现。假设在评估中心环境中使用 49 个无领导团队的样本进行了测试和支持。我们的结果有助于阐明亲社会和印象管理动机是否以及何时对领导力的出现很重要。假设在评估中心环境中使用 49 个无领导团队的样本进行了测试和支持。我们的结果有助于阐明亲社会和印象管理动机是否以及何时对领导力的出现很重要。假设在评估中心环境中使用 49 个无领导团队的样本进行了测试和支持。我们的结果有助于阐明亲社会和印象管理动机是否以及何时对领导力的出现很重要。