Police leaders as role models in feedback-seeking: How police leaders’ negative feedback-seeking encourages, reinforces, and enables their followers’ negative feedback-seeking

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This paper aims to examine leaders’ role modeling of negative feedback-seeking behavior (NFSB). We hypothesized that leaders who solicit negative feedback from their followers increase followers’ negative feedback-seeking and that this relationship is moderated by leaders' differentiation in negative feedback-seeking. Leaders engaging in authentic negative feedback-seeking by not differentiating (i.e., asking all followers equally for feedback) should yield a stronger effect on followers’ NFSB. Data was collected from leaders and followers from two German police departments (N = 130 leader-follower dyads). Results support the hypotheses showing leaders’ role modeling of NFSB. Particularly in the police, errors and mistakes are often concealed or even covered up. Our results show that it is vital for police leaders to actively solicit critical information from all their followers to signal their followers that this behavior is accepted and welcomed. Our findings can be considered when decisions regarding leadership selection, promotion, and development are made. (This is an original manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Police Practice and Research on 18 March 2024, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2024.2326835)

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Lynnyk, A., & Fischbach, A. (2024). Police leaders as role models in feedback-seeking: How police leaders’ negative feedback-seeking encourages, reinforces, and enables their followers’ negative feedback-seeking. https://doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2024.2326835