Pearlyn Ng

Pearlyn Ng

I/O Psychology PhD student

Talks and presentations

How Follower Regulatory Focus Impacts Reactions to Leader Self-serving Behavior

August 08, 2023

Talk, Academy of Management Conference, Boston, MA

In two studies, we examine how follower regulatory focus impacts their responses to self-serving leader behavior. Overall, we find that follower promotion focus is a better predictor of follower exit, defensive voice, and neglect behavior than follower prevention focus.

Who Benefits? How Ingroup Prototypes Shift Follower Impressions of Self-serving Leaders

August 05, 2022

Talk, Academy of Management Conference, Seattle, WA

This study explores how social categorization induces followers to support self-serving leaders. Building on social identity theories, we hypothesize that leader prototypicality leads followers to make inferences with respect to how much they expect to benefit (i.e., subjective expected utility) and this impact follower perceptions of the leader’s effectiveness and their willingness to support that leader.