Stuck in the past? The relationship of supervisor past temporal focus with leadership behavior

This study aims to create new knowledge on the leadership consequences of supervisors’ and their teams’ subjective orientations toward time. Drawing from functional leadership theory, we cast teams’ past temporal focus as a key boundary condition for the relationships between supervisors’ past temporal focus and their active (i.e., task-oriented and relationship-oriented) as well as passive leadership behaviors (i.e., laissez-faire). Results...