Alex Effinger is a PhD candidate studying Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). His research interests include servant leadership, leader-follower relations, and ethics. The Greenleaf Scholars award will support his research on follower outcomes related to servant leadership. Specifically, his current research draws on Social Exchange Theory and Attribution Theory to investigate whether followers who emulate their leader’s servant behaviors are regarded with appreciation or animus by their peers.
Posted in: 2023