- affective event theory
- attraction-selection-attrition model
- attribution theory
- Just world belief
- competing values framework
- contingency theories of leadership
- control theory
- conservation of resources (COR) theory
- Construal level theory
- demand-control model
- Differentiation-consolidation theory (DCT)
- dual-pathway model of creativity
- effort-reward imbalance model
- Ego depletion theory
- equity theory
- expectancy theory
- fairness heuristic theory
- fairness theory
- field theory
- fit theory
- goal-setting theory
- group values model
- hierarchy of needs theory
- image theory
- institutional theory
- job characteristics theory
- Job Demands-Resources Model
- leader-member-exchange theory
- message framing
- moral exclusion theory
- Rest’s moral development model
- normative leadership theory
- path dependence theory
- path-goal theory of leadership
- planned happenstance theory
- prospect theory
- psychological engagement model
- punctuated-equilibrium model
- reactance theory
- regulatory fit theory
- regulatory focus theory
- relative deprivation theory
- role congruity theory
- romance of leadership theory
- Self-consistency theory
- Self-discrepancy theory
- self-enhancement theory
- self-categorization theory
- signaling theory
- situational leadership theory
- social cognitive theory
- socio-ecological foundations of culture
- social exchange theory
- social identity theory
- social information processing theory
- substitute for leadership theory
- terro management theory
- the three-component model of creativity
- theory of planned behavior
- theory X, theory Y
- trait activation theory
- transformational leadership theory
- two-factor theory
- uncertainty management theory
- unfolding model of voluntary turnover
- upper echelons theory
- vigilante model of justice