Leader-member exchange and member performance: A new look at individual-level negative feedback-seeking behavior and team-level empowerment climate

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chen, Ziguang; Lam, Wing; Zhong, Jian An
• 署名单位: City University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Zhejiang University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.92.1.202
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 202-212
• 关键词: empowerment climate; LEADER-MEMBER EXCHANGE; negative feedback-seeking behavior; objective and subjective in-role performance; sense of empowerment

摘要

From a basis in social exchange theory, the authors investigated whether, and how, negative feedback-seeking behavior and a team empowerment climate affect the relationship between leader-member exchange (LMX) and member performance. Results showed that subordinates' negative feedback-seeking behavior mediated the relationship between LMX and both objective and subjective in-role performance. In addition, the level of a team's empowerment climate was positively related to subordinates' own sense of empowerment, which in turn negatively moderated the effects of LMX on negative feedback-seeking behavior.