Pursuit of Whose Happiness? Executive Leaders' Transformational Behaviors and Personal Values

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Fu, Ping Ping; Tsui, Anne S.; Liu, Jun; Li, Lan
• 署名单位: Chinese University of Hong Kong; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Peking University; Renmin University of China
• 刊物名称: ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-8392
• DOI: 10.2189/asqu.2010.55.2.222
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 222-254
• 关键词: INDIVIDUAL-VALUES; VALUE CONGRUENCE; management; culture; chinese; ORGANIZATION; Attributes; components; matter; MODEL

摘要

This paper theorizes and tests how chief executive officers' (CEOs') transformational leadership behaviors, which motivate followers to do more than expected and act for the good of the collective, influence followers' commitment. We theorize that CEOs' values may either enhance or attenuate the effect of transformational behaviors on followers, depending on followers' reactions to the congruence or incongruence between leaders' internal values and their outward transformational behaviors. Self-enhancement values-focusing on the leader's own happiness-would attenuate the effect, whereas self-transcendent values-focusing on others' happiness-would accentuate the effect of CEOs' transformational behaviors on followers' commitment. Using a sample of 45 managers in two companies in China, we validated a Q-sort method of measuring personal values. Results of a second study using cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys as well as interview data from a sample of Chinese CEOs, top managers, and middle managers supported both the attenuation and the accentuation effects and validated the idea that middle managers can detect their CEOs' values.(circle)