Leading Across Languages: How Linguistic Diversity Moderates Leadership Impact in a Public Service Organization

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Cover der Ausgabe: Swiss Journal of Business Jahrgang 80 (2026), Heft 2
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Swiss Journal of Business

Jahrgang 80 (2026), Heft 2

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Nomos, Baden-Baden
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2026
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2944-3741
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2944-3741

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Jahrgang 80 (2026), Heft 2

Leading Across Languages: How Linguistic Diversity Moderates Leadership Impact in a Public Service Organization

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2944-3741
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2944-3741
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Diese Studie untersucht, wie die sprachliche Nähe eines Teams zu seiner Führungskraft die Wirkungen von Servant Leadership und Transformational Leadership auf die Übernahme von Führungsrollen in einem mehrsprachigen Public-Service-Kontext moderiert. Auf Grundlage der Relational-Schema-Theorie und der Forschung zu inklusiver Führung konzeptualisieren wir sprachliche Nähe als einen kontinuierlichen kognitiv-relationalen Mechanismus, der die Interaktionen zwischen Führungskraft und Team prägt. Die Daten stammen von 68 Zugführern und 755 Angehörigen der Schweizer Armee, wurden über vier Messzeitpunkte hinweg erhoben und mit objektiven Karrieredaten verknüpft. Hierarchische Regressionen zeigen, dass sprachliche Nähe die Übernahme von Führungsrollen über Führungsstil und Motivation hinaus vorhersagt und sowohl die Effekte eines gemeinsamen Leadership-Kerns als auch die stil­spezifischen Komponenten konditioniert. Servant Leadership weist dabei ein doppelkanaliges, nahezu universelles Wirkmuster über sprachliche Kontexte hinweg auf, während Transformational Leadership einem sprachlich kontingenten, kompensatorischen Verlauf folgt. Die Ergebnisse positionieren Sprache als zentralen relationalen Mechanismus multilingualer Führung und unterstreichen die Bedeutung sprachlicher Passung für die Führungsentwicklung in öffentlichen Institutionen.

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