The heritability of emergent leadership: Age and gender as moderating factors |
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| Authors: | Sankalp Chaturvedi Michael J Zyphur Richard D Arvey Bruce J Avolio Gerry Larsson |
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| Institution: | 1. Organization and Management Group, Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, UK;2. Department of Management and Marketing, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia;3. Director of Centre for Strategic Leadership, NUS Business School, National University of Singapore, 1 Business Link, Singapore, 117592;4. Department of Management and Organization, Foster School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98185–3200, USA;5. Department of Leadership and Management, Swedish National Defence College, Karlstad SE-65180, Sweden |
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| Abstract: | In this study, we examined the moderating influences of gender and age with respect to testing the heritability of leadership emergence. A large data base of 12,112 twins from Sweden was used in the current study to decompose the variance of emergent leadership into an unobservable genetic component and environmental components that are either common or unshared among twin pairs. Consistent with prior leadership research on genetics, we found that a genetic factor is able to explain a significant proportion of the variation across individuals in predicting how twins perceive their emergent leadership behavior (about 44% for women and 37% for men). Furthermore, we also found that the magnitude of genetic influence on emergent leadership varied with age, but only for women with the heritability estimate being highest for the mid-age women versus lowest for the older women. Implications for advancing research on the genetic and environmental influences on leadership emergence are discussed. |
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