The present study has explored the potential variables that might mediate the relationship between issue leadership and outcome variables. Issue leadership, publicized in 2000, has shown very promising direct effects on outcome variables such as satis...
The present study has explored the potential variables that might mediate the relationship between issue leadership and outcome variables. Issue leadership, publicized in 2000, has shown very promising direct effects on outcome variables such as satisfaction, commitment, and innovative behavior. However, the mediation process between issue leadership and outcome variables thus far were not systematically explored. At the individual level of analysis, a review of organizational behavior literature presented that such areas as cognition, motivation, emotion, attitude, and value provided a multitude of mediator-potential variables for each dimension of issue leadership as in issue creation, audience involving, and issue implementation. It has been argued that future studies should conduct empirical investigations that test the effectiveness of the mediating variables that are identified in this paper. Other future directions of the issue leadership research have also been suggested.