Michelle C Bligh
Biographic Data
| ID | 5877361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle C Bligh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle C |
| FAMILY NAME | Bligh |
| SIGNATURE | BLIGH M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Claremont Graduate University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9714-8674 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Moving from problems to solutions: A review of gender equality interventions at work using an ecological systems approach
Despite the mounting research on gender inequality in the workplace, progress toward gender parity in organizational practice has stalled. We suggest that one reason for the lack of progress is that empirical research has predominately focused on the antecedents and manifestations of gender inequality in the workplace, paying inadequate attention to the solutions that could potentially improve gender equality and women's experiences at work. Inde…
Not “My” crisis: Social identity and followers’ crisis responses to Covid‐19
Operationalizing social group identification as political partisanship, we examine followers’ (i.e., US residents’) affective experiences and behavioral responses during the initial COVID‐19 outbreak in the United States (March to May 2020). In Study 1, we conducted content analyses on major news outlets’ coverage of COVID‐19 ( N = 4319) to examine media polarization and how it plays a role in shaping followers’ perceptions of the pandemic and le…
Prosociality and hoarding amid the Covid ‐19 pandemic: A tale of four countries
The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented public health crisis that poses a challenge to humanity. Drawing on the stress and coping literature, we argue that people around the world alleviate their anxiety and stress induced by the pandemic through both prosocial and 'self-interested' hoarding behaviours. This cross-cultural survey study examined the pushing (threat perception) and pulling (moral identity) factors that predicted prosocial acts an…
Leadership as a Reflection of Who We Are: Social Identity, Media Portrayal, and Evaluations of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
A follower-centric approach to the 2016 US presidential election: Candidate rhetoric and follower attributions of charisma and effectiveness
The 2016 US Presidential Campaign was followed worldwide due to the dynamic nature of the candidates and the controversy surrounding them. This study takes a unique look at the candidacy of Donald Trump through the eyes of his followers. Using both qualitative data collected from campaign speeches and quantitative data collected from followers, our study examines (1) the positive/negative valence of the rhetoric used by both presidential candidat…
Looking for Leadership in All the Wrong Places: The Impact of Culture on Proactive Followership and Follower Dissent
Despite increasing globalization, we know little about how culture influences leader–follower relationships. Specifically, what is the impact of cultural values and norms on followers’ view of their role, and their willingness to disagree with a team's or a leader's decision? Recognizing that followers by definition represent a lower status and marginalized group, we explore how cultural values and tightness–looseness theories influence proactive…
Comparing leaders across contexts, culture, and time: Computerized content analysis of leader–follower communications
Computer-aided text analysis (CATA) has enormous potential for expanding the study of leadership communications. Building on previous calls for more creative methodologies for studying leadership, scholars need to be continually innovative in utilizing textual data from diverse sources (e.g. emails, letters, memos, annual reports, statements to shareholders, executive speeches, interview and meeting transcripts, training materials, newsletters, w…
The vision integration process: Applying Rogers’ diffusion of innovations theory to leader–follower communications
Involving followers in the communication of a new vision can be critical to its ultimate adoption. Viewing vision as a relatively novel guiding framework that may or may not “diffuse” throughout an organization, we apply Roger’s (2003) Diffusion of Innovations model to the visioning process. Employees from a large supermarket chain (n = 1481) completed surveys concerning vision knowledge, perceptions of the vision’s innovation characteristics (i.…
Charismatic Rhetoric in the 2008 Presidential Campaign: Commonalities and Differences
For all of the attention given to charisma in media accounts of presidential campaigns, there is surprisingly little systematic research on the use and effect of charismatic rhetoric, even though researchers outside of political science have attempted to deconstruct and analyze the different components of rhetorical speech. We draw from this scholarship to explore the use of different forms of charismatic rhetoric throughout the entire 2008 presi…
Collaborating with ‘virtual strangers’: Towards developing a framework for leadership in distributed teams
The current study qualitatively explores emergent leadership themes within distributed teams in a large international Fortune 500 organization. Sixteen employees across different organizational sites were interviewed about experiences in both collocated and distributed teams. Previous research has typically highlighted how these teams fall on a continuum of virtuality, from purely face-to-face to entirely distributed, as well as emphasizing the i…
Navigating Public Prejudices: The Impact of Media and Attitudes on High-Profile Female Political Leaders
Finding Her Voice: Hillary Clinton's Rhetoric in the 2008 Presidential Campaign
After her somewhat surprising third place finish in the 2008 Iowa Democratic caucus, the following week’s New Hampshire primary became an almost must win situation for Hillary Clinton. Rather than coasting to a series of easy primary wins, polls were showing Clinton in a dead heat or losing to Obama, with the momentum seemingly swinging toward the younger, less experienced first term senator from Illinois. In the context of Obama’s double-digit a…
Identity and Intergroup Leadership: Asymmetrical Political and National Identification in Response to Uncertainty
Based on research showing that feelings of self-uncertainty increase group identification, we explored the idea that leader-induced uncertainty might under some conditions also strengthen identification. Given that most leadership situations involve leading diverse subgroups, the effectiveness of leader-induced uncertainty to increase identification would likely be influenced by the extent to which members viewed the superordinate group as reflec…
Emerging from Ethical Scandal: Can Corruption Really Have a Happy Ending
Prior research suggests that companies with ethical leadership, a climate characterized by ethical values, and a formal ethics program have employees who engage in less misconduct. In this study, we examine one company's journey to develop these three elements and successfully emerge from scandal to eventually be hailed as a model of organizational ethics. A qualitative analysis of newspaper articles across three periods from scandal exposure to …
Negotiating Gender Role Expectations: Rhetorical Leadership and Women in the US Senate
The historical paucity of US women senators has provided little opportunity to study women at one of the highest and most prestigious leadership levels. Through a content analysis of 12 months of public discourse in a variety of media, we explore the rhetorical leadership of women senators as they carry out their elected roles. Results indicate that women senators use significantly less aggressive and more ambivalent speech when compared to polit…
Leading Question: The Romance Lives On: Contemporary Issues Surrounding the Romance of Leadership
With the passing of James R. Meindl in 2004, the leadership community lost a preeminent scholar, leader, and very dear mentor and friend.In the current paper we explore key elements of Jim"s legacy, with a particular focus on continuing research streams and ongoing questions regarding the romance of leadership.In addition, in recognition of the increased attention to follower-centered approaches to leadership that Jim helped inspire, we offer a n…
Surviving Post-merger ‘Culture Clash’: Can Cultural Leadership Lessen the Casualties
Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity continues to rise, despite evidence that the majority of M&As fail to meet the financial and synergistic expectations of shareholders or employees. Post-merger ‘cultural clashes’ are often blamed for disappointing M&A outcomes, yet little research exists to guide organizations through the difficult process of cultural integration. In particular, the process of cultural leadership as an important influence on …
Crisis and Charisma in the California Recall Election
The 2003 California recall election represented a unique opportunity to study leadership in the context of what has been described in the popular media as an economic and political crisis. Participants (N= 311) reported their perceptions of the current situation in California and their tendency to attribute outcomes to leaders rather than situational factors (the Romance of Leadership Scale, or RLS). They subsequently watched video clips of the i…
Crisis and Charisma in the California Recall Election
The 2003 California recall election represented a unique opportunity to study leadership in the context of what has been described in the popular media as an economic and political crisis. Participants (N= 311) reported their perceptions of the current situation in California and their tendency to attribute outcomes to leaders rather than situational factors (the Romance of Leadership Scale, or RLS). They subsequently watched video clips of the i…
Negotiating Gender Role Expectations: Rhetorical Leadership and Women in the US Senate
The historical paucity of US women senators has provided little opportunity to study women at one of the highest and most prestigious leadership levels. Through a content analysis of 12 months of public discourse in a variety of media, we explore the rhetorical leadership of women senators as they carry out their elected roles. Results indicate that women senators use significantly less aggressive and more ambivalent speech when compared to polit…
Charismatic Rhetoric in the 2008 Presidential Campaign: Commonalities and Differences
For all of the attention given to charisma in media accounts of presidential campaigns, there is surprisingly little systematic research on the use and effect of charismatic rhetoric, even though researchers outside of political science have attempted to deconstruct and analyze the different components of rhetorical speech. We draw from this scholarship to explore the use of different forms of charismatic rhetoric throughout the entire 2008 presi…
Leading Question: The Romance Lives On: Contemporary Issues Surrounding the Romance of Leadership
With the passing of James R. Meindl in 2004, the leadership community lost a preeminent scholar, leader, and very dear mentor and friend.In the current paper we explore key elements of Jim"s legacy, with a particular focus on continuing research streams and ongoing questions regarding the romance of leadership.In addition, in recognition of the increased attention to follower-centered approaches to leadership that Jim helped inspire, we offer a n…
Prosociality and hoarding amid the Covid ‐19 pandemic: A tale of four countries
The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented public health crisis that poses a challenge to humanity. Drawing on the stress and coping literature, we argue that people around the world alleviate their anxiety and stress induced by the pandemic through both prosocial and 'self-interested' hoarding behaviours. This cross-cultural survey study examined the pushing (threat perception) and pulling (moral identity) factors that predicted prosocial acts an…
Finding Her Voice: Hillary Clinton's Rhetoric in the 2008 Presidential Campaign
After her somewhat surprising third place finish in the 2008 Iowa Democratic caucus, the following week’s New Hampshire primary became an almost must win situation for Hillary Clinton. Rather than coasting to a series of easy primary wins, polls were showing Clinton in a dead heat or losing to Obama, with the momentum seemingly swinging toward the younger, less experienced first term senator from Illinois. In the context of Obama’s double-digit a…
Navigating Public Prejudices: The Impact of Media and Attitudes on High-Profile Female Political Leaders
A follower-centric approach to the 2016 US presidential election: Candidate rhetoric and follower attributions of charisma and effectiveness
The 2016 US Presidential Campaign was followed worldwide due to the dynamic nature of the candidates and the controversy surrounding them. This study takes a unique look at the candidacy of Donald Trump through the eyes of his followers. Using both qualitative data collected from campaign speeches and quantitative data collected from followers, our study examines (1) the positive/negative valence of the rhetoric used by both presidential candidat…
Looking for Leadership in All the Wrong Places: The Impact of Culture on Proactive Followership and Follower Dissent
Despite increasing globalization, we know little about how culture influences leader–follower relationships. Specifically, what is the impact of cultural values and norms on followers’ view of their role, and their willingness to disagree with a team's or a leader's decision? Recognizing that followers by definition represent a lower status and marginalized group, we explore how cultural values and tightness–looseness theories influence proactive…
Leadership as a Reflection of Who We Are: Social Identity, Media Portrayal, and Evaluations of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Surviving Post-merger ‘Culture Clash’: Can Cultural Leadership Lessen the Casualties
Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity continues to rise, despite evidence that the majority of M&As fail to meet the financial and synergistic expectations of shareholders or employees. Post-merger ‘cultural clashes’ are often blamed for disappointing M&A outcomes, yet little research exists to guide organizations through the difficult process of cultural integration. In particular, the process of cultural leadership as an important influence on …
The vision integration process: Applying Rogers’ diffusion of innovations theory to leader–follower communications
Involving followers in the communication of a new vision can be critical to its ultimate adoption. Viewing vision as a relatively novel guiding framework that may or may not “diffuse” throughout an organization, we apply Roger’s (2003) Diffusion of Innovations model to the visioning process. Employees from a large supermarket chain (n = 1481) completed surveys concerning vision knowledge, perceptions of the vision’s innovation characteristics (i.…
Crisis and Charisma in the California Recall Election
The 2003 California recall election represented a unique opportunity to study leadership in the context of what has been described in the popular media as an economic and political crisis. Participants (N= 311) reported their perceptions of the current situation in California and their tendency to attribute outcomes to leaders rather than situational factors (the Romance of Leadership Scale, or RLS). They subsequently watched video clips of the i…
Surviving Post-merger ‘Culture Clash’: Can Cultural Leadership Lessen the Casualties
Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity continues to rise, despite evidence that the majority of M&As fail to meet the financial and synergistic expectations of shareholders or employees. Post-merger ‘cultural clashes’ are often blamed for disappointing M&A outcomes, yet little research exists to guide organizations through the difficult process of cultural integration. In particular, the process of cultural leadership as an important influence on …
Leading Question: The Romance Lives On: Contemporary Issues Surrounding the Romance of Leadership
With the passing of James R. Meindl in 2004, the leadership community lost a preeminent scholar, leader, and very dear mentor and friend.In the current paper we explore key elements of Jim"s legacy, with a particular focus on continuing research streams and ongoing questions regarding the romance of leadership.In addition, in recognition of the increased attention to follower-centered approaches to leadership that Jim helped inspire, we offer a n…
Negotiating Gender Role Expectations: Rhetorical Leadership and Women in the US Senate
The historical paucity of US women senators has provided little opportunity to study women at one of the highest and most prestigious leadership levels. Through a content analysis of 12 months of public discourse in a variety of media, we explore the rhetorical leadership of women senators as they carry out their elected roles. Results indicate that women senators use significantly less aggressive and more ambivalent speech when compared to polit…
Identity and Intergroup Leadership: Asymmetrical Political and National Identification in Response to Uncertainty
Based on research showing that feelings of self-uncertainty increase group identification, we explored the idea that leader-induced uncertainty might under some conditions also strengthen identification. Given that most leadership situations involve leading diverse subgroups, the effectiveness of leader-induced uncertainty to increase identification would likely be influenced by the extent to which members viewed the superordinate group as reflec…
Emerging from Ethical Scandal: Can Corruption Really Have a Happy Ending
Prior research suggests that companies with ethical leadership, a climate characterized by ethical values, and a formal ethics program have employees who engage in less misconduct. In this study, we examine one company's journey to develop these three elements and successfully emerge from scandal to eventually be hailed as a model of organizational ethics. A qualitative analysis of newspaper articles across three periods from scandal exposure to …
Finding Her Voice: Hillary Clinton's Rhetoric in the 2008 Presidential Campaign
After her somewhat surprising third place finish in the 2008 Iowa Democratic caucus, the following week’s New Hampshire primary became an almost must win situation for Hillary Clinton. Rather than coasting to a series of easy primary wins, polls were showing Clinton in a dead heat or losing to Obama, with the momentum seemingly swinging toward the younger, less experienced first term senator from Illinois. In the context of Obama’s double-digit a…
Collaborating with ‘virtual strangers’: Towards developing a framework for leadership in distributed teams
The current study qualitatively explores emergent leadership themes within distributed teams in a large international Fortune 500 organization. Sixteen employees across different organizational sites were interviewed about experiences in both collocated and distributed teams. Previous research has typically highlighted how these teams fall on a continuum of virtuality, from purely face-to-face to entirely distributed, as well as emphasizing the i…
Navigating Public Prejudices: The Impact of Media and Attitudes on High-Profile Female Political Leaders
The vision integration process: Applying Rogers’ diffusion of innovations theory to leader–follower communications
Involving followers in the communication of a new vision can be critical to its ultimate adoption. Viewing vision as a relatively novel guiding framework that may or may not “diffuse” throughout an organization, we apply Roger’s (2003) Diffusion of Innovations model to the visioning process. Employees from a large supermarket chain (n = 1481) completed surveys concerning vision knowledge, perceptions of the vision’s innovation characteristics (i.…
Charismatic Rhetoric in the 2008 Presidential Campaign: Commonalities and Differences
For all of the attention given to charisma in media accounts of presidential campaigns, there is surprisingly little systematic research on the use and effect of charismatic rhetoric, even though researchers outside of political science have attempted to deconstruct and analyze the different components of rhetorical speech. We draw from this scholarship to explore the use of different forms of charismatic rhetoric throughout the entire 2008 presi…
Comparing leaders across contexts, culture, and time: Computerized content analysis of leader–follower communications
Computer-aided text analysis (CATA) has enormous potential for expanding the study of leadership communications. Building on previous calls for more creative methodologies for studying leadership, scholars need to be continually innovative in utilizing textual data from diverse sources (e.g. emails, letters, memos, annual reports, statements to shareholders, executive speeches, interview and meeting transcripts, training materials, newsletters, w…
A follower-centric approach to the 2016 US presidential election: Candidate rhetoric and follower attributions of charisma and effectiveness
The 2016 US Presidential Campaign was followed worldwide due to the dynamic nature of the candidates and the controversy surrounding them. This study takes a unique look at the candidacy of Donald Trump through the eyes of his followers. Using both qualitative data collected from campaign speeches and quantitative data collected from followers, our study examines (1) the positive/negative valence of the rhetoric used by both presidential candidat…
Looking for Leadership in All the Wrong Places: The Impact of Culture on Proactive Followership and Follower Dissent
Despite increasing globalization, we know little about how culture influences leader–follower relationships. Specifically, what is the impact of cultural values and norms on followers’ view of their role, and their willingness to disagree with a team's or a leader's decision? Recognizing that followers by definition represent a lower status and marginalized group, we explore how cultural values and tightness–looseness theories influence proactive…
Leadership as a Reflection of Who We Are: Social Identity, Media Portrayal, and Evaluations of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Prosociality and hoarding amid the Covid ‐19 pandemic: A tale of four countries
The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented public health crisis that poses a challenge to humanity. Drawing on the stress and coping literature, we argue that people around the world alleviate their anxiety and stress induced by the pandemic through both prosocial and 'self-interested' hoarding behaviours. This cross-cultural survey study examined the pushing (threat perception) and pulling (moral identity) factors that predicted prosocial acts an…
Not “My” crisis: Social identity and followers’ crisis responses to Covid‐19
Operationalizing social group identification as political partisanship, we examine followers’ (i.e., US residents’) affective experiences and behavioral responses during the initial COVID‐19 outbreak in the United States (March to May 2020). In Study 1, we conducted content analyses on major news outlets’ coverage of COVID‐19 ( N = 4319) to examine media polarization and how it plays a role in shaping followers’ perceptions of the pandemic and le…
Moving from problems to solutions: A review of gender equality interventions at work using an ecological systems approach
Despite the mounting research on gender inequality in the workplace, progress toward gender parity in organizational practice has stalled. We suggest that one reason for the lack of progress is that empirical research has predominately focused on the antecedents and manifestations of gender inequality in the workplace, paying inadequate attention to the solutions that could potentially improve gender equality and women's experiences at work. Inde…
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