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Lecture
- About the Lecture
To Give A Fish or To Teach How to Fish: Examining Leaders’ Autonomy or Dependency Helping Behaviors
Leaders are uniquely positioned to support their employees, and when they do, both parties benefit. However, we still have limited insight into how leaders offer help. Leaders may provide dependency help—solving problems for employees—which fosters reliance, or autonomy help—teaching employees to solve problems themselves—which promotes empowerment. We draw on power-dependence relations theory and the dual rank-allocation framework to propose that leaders high on dominance (i.e., those driven to assert authority and control) are inclined to offer more dependency help and less autonomy help. In contrast, leaders high on prestige (i.e., those focused on earning respect and admiration) tend to offer more autonomy help and less dependency help.
The lecture was presented by the Department of Global Leadership and Management and the Center for Leadership.
- DateWednesday, February 12, 2025
Presenter
- Hemant Kakkar, Ph.D.
Dr. Hemant Kakkar is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the Indian School of Business. Previously, he served as an Assistant and Associate Professor of Management and Organization at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Dr. Kakkar earned his doctoral degree in Organisational Behaviour from the London Business School.
His research draws on social psychology and evolutionary theories of status and influence to examine judgments and behaviors of individuals and groups within social hierarchies. Additionally, his work explores individuals' tendency to engage in both positive and negative deviant behaviors.
Dr. Kakkar has received numerous accolades for his research, including the 2021 Alvah H. Chapman Jr. Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Center for Leadership at Florida International University and the 2021 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the International Association of Conflict Management. His work has also earned Best Paper awards from the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management and the International Association of Conflict Management in 2021.
His research is published in leading academic journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Applied Psychology, Nature Human Behavior, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. It has also been featured in prominent media outlets such as The Washington Post, Forbes, The Atlantic, Scientific American, The Times UK, and Harvard Business Review.
At ISB, Dr. Kakkar teaches core courses in Organisational Behaviour. During his time at the Fuqua School of Business, he taught Foundations of Organizational Behavior to master’s students and graduate-level seminar courses. He was recognized with the Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2021 for the Master of Management Studies program.
Before pursuing academia, Dr. Kakkar worked as a technical consultant at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. in India.