Leaders’ Implicit Followership Theories As a Mechanism: Influence of Employee Personalities on in-Role and Extra-Role Behaviors

The present study examined direct and indirect relationship between followers’ personalities and their behaviors through leaders’ implicit followership theories (LIFTs) and leader behaviors. Followers’ personalities such as conscientiousness, agreeableness and openness to experience had a significant positive experience on positive LIFTs and neuroticism had a negative effect on Negative LIFTs.