The impact of neuroleadership brain domains versus charismatic leadership on employee motivation.

摘要

Employee motivation is an essential aspect of business and can lead to positive organizational outcomes. The purpose of this experimental study was to explore the two key factors of employee motivation: Charismatic Leadership and Feedback compatibility. Charismatic leadership was hypothesized to have a great influence on employee motivation in comparison to the non-charismatic leadership condition.;High feedback compatibility between a leader and employee was hypothesized to have more of an impact on employee motivation in comparison to low feedback compatibility and no feedback. David Rock's SCARF model was used to examine the role of feedback. What Neuroleadership has found is that receiving feedback will either send the brain into a threat or reward state. When an employee is in a threat state, he/she is demotivated and less productive. Therefore, it is very important for managers to keep their employees in a reward state when giving feedback.;Charismatic Leadership was hypothesized to moderate the relationship between feedback compatibility and employee motivation. When the leader is charismatic, feedback compatibility will not affect employee motivation. However, when the leader is non-charismatic, high feedback compatibility will result in higher employee motivation than low feedback compatibility and no feedback conditions.;Data was collected from143 employees across diverse business industries in the United States. Participation was voluntary, participants were recruited via email, and participants were encouraged to invite other individuals who met the requirements to take the study. Results of two-way ANOVA indicated that charismatic leadership increased employee motivation in comparison to non-charismatic leadership; and high feedback compatibility increased employee motivation in comparison to low compatibility and no feedback. Charismatic leadership did not moderate the relationship between feedback compatibility and employee motivation. Implications of the results are discussed, such as feedback compatibility will have a great impact on employee motivation regardless of the type of leader (Charismatic leadership and non-charismatic leadership). The importance of leaders giving feedback that is highly compatible with the employees' brain domain preference is essential to employee motivation. Finally, the strengths and limitations of the study, as well as recommendations for future research, are presented.