From ideal to real: A longitudinal study of the role of implicit leadership theories on leader-member exchanges and employee outcomes

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: Epitropaki, O; Martin, R
• 署名单位: University of Queensland
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.90.4.659
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 659-676
• 关键词: implicit leadership theories; leader-member exchanges; organizational commitment; job satisfaction; Well-being

摘要

The results of the present longitudinal study demonstrate the importance of implicit leadership theories (ILTs) for the quality of leader-member exchanges (LMX) and employees' organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and well-being. Results based on a sample-of 439 employees who completed the study questionnaires at 2 time points showed that the closer employees perceived their actual manager's profile to be to the ILTs they endorsed, the better the quality of LMX Results also indicated that the implicit-explicit leadership traits difference had indirect effects on employee attitudes and well-being. These findings were consistent across employee groups that differed in terms of job demand and the duration of manager-employee relation, but not in terms of motivation. Furthermore, crossed-lagged modeling analyses of the longitudinal data explored the possibility of reciprocal effects between implicit-explicit leadership traits difference and LMX and provided support for the initially hypothesized direction of causal effects.