Keep Your Head in the Clouds and Your Feet on the Ground: A Multifocal Review of Leadership–Followership Self-Regulatory Focus

Self-regulatory focus reflects both a trait (chronic focus) and a state (situational focus) that can either influence or be influenced by various organizational factors and outcomes, allowing us to be promotion focused, “keeping our head in the clouds” and/or prevention focused by “keeping our feet on the ground.” Self-regulatory focus is a significant explanatory construct because it comprises an inner-self component (ideal versus ought), which...