Survey and Experimental Data on Leadership Signals and Employee Outcomes

Two studies investigate the psychological pathways linking leader signals to employee exhaustion and unethical actions. Study 1 used a time-lagged survey with 489 full-time employees, while Study 2 employed a between-subjects vignette experiment with 276 participants. The dataset, authored by Hussain Ali and last updated in May 2026, supports the paper's analysis of leader-enforced positivity and humility-aspiration signaling.

Use Cases

• Testing dual-pathway models linking leadership signals to employee outcomes based on the described state suppression and meaning-making mechanisms.
• Analyzing the moderating role of employee traits like dispositional optimism and hypercompetitive orientation on leadership effects.
• Replicating experimental findings comparing leader-enforced positive display rules (EPDR) and humility–aspiration signaling (HAS).

Strengths

• Includes data from two distinct methodological approaches: a survey (n=489) and an experiment (n=276).
• Explicitly tests a theoretical model based on social information processing theory.
• Released under a CC-BY-4.0 license for open access and reuse.

Limitations

• The 17.0 KB file size suggests a very limited scope, likely containing only supplementary analysis files rather than raw data.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the associated paper.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Data collection involved a time-lagged survey design and a between-subjects vignette experiment.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 04:41:02