Followers identify with and extend effort for charismatic leaders.

Evidence

Another future area for research would be to examine what other types of leadership mediate organizational identity processes. It seems likely that any style that is charismatic or based on the personal attributes of the leader (e.g., Lord et al., 1984, 1999) would engage the social identity processes of the follower. Given the percent of variance explained by the models in Table 13.4 (70% for satisfaction and 37% for OCB), fostering organizational identity among employees, especially the affective commitment component, is a management strategy that almost certainly has practical relevance. If a leader can cultivate organizational identity among followers, those followers may be happier and more likely to help the organization when it is not required. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1866

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s prejudice-psychology thread through ingroup identity formation — organizational identity here is an ingroup case study, echoing charisma-based ingroup loyalty mechanisms discussed elsewhere. — connects to: A charismatic leader can give isolated youth the sense of existing through group power. — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 376
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1866