The Role of Goal-Focused Leadership in Enabling the Expression of Conscientiousness

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Colbert, Amy E.; Witt, L. A.
• 署名单位: University of Iowa; University of Houston System; University of Houston
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/a0014187
• 发表日期: 2009
• 页码: 790-796
• 关键词: personality; leadership; goal congruence; CONSCIENTIOUSNESS; performance

摘要

The authors tested the hypothesis that goal-focused leadership enables conscientious workers to perform effectively by helping them to accurately understand organizational goal priorities. Data collected from 162 workers in a private sector document processing organization supported the hypotheses that goal-focused leadership moderates the relationship between conscientiousness and job performance and that person-organization goal congruence mediates this moderated relationship. Specifically, conscientiousness was more strongly positively related to performance among workers who perceived that their supervisors effectively set goals and defined roles, responsibilities, and priorities than among workers who did not perceive this type of goal-focused leadership.