(Haslam & Abraham, 1987: observed increased laissez faire leadership as a «side-remark» in a study of the effect of sleep-loss on military performance) ...
The effect of sleep deprivation on (passive avoidant-) leadership in military officers. An experimental study.
Olav Kjellevold Olsen (1), Ståle Pallesen(2), Roar Espevik(1), Torbjørn Torsheim (2) (1) The Royal Norwegian Naval Academy, (2) University of Bergen
Passive avoidant leadership obstruct initiative agility – ability to protect (Richards, 2004)…but happens too often..
Why could lack of sleep represent a relevant predictor of PavL practice?
Because leaders receive limited amount of sleep • During combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, US Army officers slept for about four hours a day (Miller, Shattuck, & Matsangas, 2011). • A case study of sleep during naval deployment found that the commanding officer of a US destroyer received 5.2 h sleep daily, and for 17 % of the days of the deployment less than 4h (Shattuck and Matsangas (2015) • 40.5% of managers in a sample of civilian noninstitutionalised US residents slept for less than six hours a day (Luckhaupt, Tak, & Calvert, 2010).
and..Sleep-deprivation impair several leadership relevant variables (Pilcher & Huffcutt, 1996)
and..Sleep deprivation strongly reduces ability for mature moral reasoning Rested
