Motivating and Demotivating Forces in Teams: Cross-Level Influences of Empowering Leadership and Relationship Conflict

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chen, Gilad; Sharma, Payal Nangia; Edinger, Suzanne K.; Shapiro, Debra L.; Farh, Jiing-Lih
• 署名单位: University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/a0021886
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 541-557
• 关键词: WORK TEAMS; motivation; CONFLICT; multilevel

摘要

Using cross-cultural laboratory and field studies with samples of leaders, employees, and students from the United States and the People's Republic of China, we examined how team-level stimuli, including empowering leadership and relationship conflict, combine to influence individual members' motivational states of psychological empowerment and affective commitment. As predicted, we found that these motivational states are individually and jointly influenced by teams' level of empowering leadership and relationship conflict and that these motivational states mediate the relationships between team stimuli and team members' innovative and teamwork behaviors and turnover intentions. In addition, results held despite controlling for team members' nationality and collectivism. We discuss contributions of our study to the team motivation, conflict, and stress literatures.