Leader-Follower Identity Dynamics: Current and Future Directions.

Individuals hold internal representations or schemas that were developed in the past (Murphy & Johnson, 2011) and include cognitions, emotions, and scripts that have an impact on how they labeled themselves and others as leaders (Eden & Leviatan, 2005; van Knippenberg et al., 2004) or followers (Whiteley et al., 2012) and those representations will influence their identities and interpersonal relations (Coyle & Foti, 2015; Dienesch & Liden, 1986; Engle & Lord, 1997; Lord et al., 1984; Lord & Maher, 1993). To better understand what urges leadership and followership behaviours and actions, we need to uncover and thoroughly examine the versatile ways that people employ to define themselves as leaders or followers. Leader-follower identity dynamics is a promising field of study with major implications on workplace like leader-follower identity switch- LFS (Sy & McCoy, 2014), role transitions within the same domain (Ashforth, 2001), effective momentary or/and shared leadership (Shondrick, Dinh & Lord 2010; Friedrich, Vessey, Schuelke, et al. 2009) and leadership development (Epitropaki et al., 2023; Lord et al., 2020). With our symposium we aim to function as a catalyst and ignite a thought-provoking discussion by exploring current and future research directions. Each one of the panelists will explore the topic from a different angle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]