Armin Pircher Verdorfer

Anouk Decuypere, a postdoctoral researcher in the Faculty of Law at the University of Antwerp, and Armin Pircher Verdorfer, an associate professor in the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Amsterdam, discuss their article, “Leader Attentive Communication: A new Communication Concept, Validation and Scale Development,” published in the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies (additional training study methodology is also available).

Introduction There is ample evidence on what leadership behaviors benefit organizations and followers (e.g., Judge et al., 2004; Hoch et al., 2018) – but do these behaviors also support a leader’s career? Leaders may implement certain leadership behaviors more when these also benefit their promotion.

Abstract During the last decade, an increasing amount of research has focused on the ethical context in organizations. Among the recent approaches in this area is the construct of socio-moral climate (SMC), which adopts a developmental perspective and refers to specific elements of organizational climate that include communication, cooperation, and how organizations handle conflict.