How do emerging leaders communicate implicitly? Measuring implicit traits

Abstract

Leaders play a fundamental role in the success of organizations; names like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, or Mark Zuckerberg are world renowned, and their fame illustrates the way in which one person's influence can exert tremendous impact on the outputs of any given enterprise. It is not surprising that leadership is one of the main research topics in organizational psychology, as the discipline preoccupies itself with the understanding of what makes a good leader, and how do we detect these attributes. A search for the topic in the Scopus database reveals publications that date back to the late 19th century, and that they have steadily increased in numbers particularly after the 1960s.