Accounting for subordinate perceptions of supervisor power: An identity-dependence model

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: Farmer, SM; Aguinis, H
• 署名单位: Wichita State University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.90.6.1069
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 1069-1083
• 关键词: social power; dependence; role identity; self verification

摘要

The authors present a model that explains how subordinates perceive the power of their supervisors and the causal mechanisms by which these perceptions translate into subordinate outcomes. Drawing on identity and resource-dependence theories, the authors propose that supervisors have power over their subordinates when they control resources needed for the subordinates' enactment and maintenance of current and desired identities. The Joint effect of perceptions of supervisor power and supervisor intentions to provide such resources leads to 4 conditions ranging from highly functional to highly dysfunctional: confirmation, hope, apathy, and progressive withdrawal. Each of these conditions is associated with specific outcomes such as the quality of the supervisor-subordinate relationship, turnover, and changes in the type and centrality of various subordinate identities.