Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman conducted a study published in Harward Business Revew on "how leaders affect subordinates and whether good leaders' behavior and job performance infect subordinates." They defended the hypothesis that good leadership affects their own teams and is contagious. As a result of their studies, they reached conclusions that support these hypotheses.
We know emotions are contagious. Happiness is also contagious, UC San Diego, James Fowler and Harvard's Nicholas Christakis have shown in their study. The probability that a happy person will affect the happiness of the other person is assumed to be 25%.
It is contagious in behavior. If you are in a friend environment with overweight people, you are more likely to be overweight. If we want to quit smoking, we are more likely to quit our smoking friends.
Divorce also appears to be contagious, according to research by Rose McDermott of Brown University. It is concluded that if you have a close friend who is divorced, you will be 33% more likely to break up and break up with your spouse.
Based on these studies, Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, who worked on how "social contagion" affects leaders, conducted a research between senior and mid-level leaders. In the study, a meaningful relationship was found between top-level leaders and middle-level leaders. Examinations were made among 51 behaviors and a correlation was found for more than 30 behaviors. All correlations were statistically significant. It has been observed that there is a significant relationship between the performances of the individuals.
According to the research, there were results supporting the hypothesis that leadership behavior is contagious.
In this sense, it is inevitable for the leader to be a role model and especially affect their teams and teams with their behaviors.
Those who manage change in companies should also support this with their behavior. Just as we become role models for our spouse and children at home and influence them with our behavior. Likewise, we affect our team in the institutions we work with.
He does or does business by looking upside down, shapes his behaviors according to the top and draws himself to the right. The straighter the far right (head) is, the more smooth the other links of the chain will be. A good model will be set by example and will infect other managers and teams. Leaders who can be good models will achieve great success in moving their organizations towards the intended goal.