Even Nectar is Poisonous in Excess: The Impact of Leader Humility on Pride, Entitlement, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior

IF 5 3区 管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT
Somayeh Bahmannia, Darren K. B, Daan van Knippenberg, Kevin B. Lowe
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Studies on the effect of leader humility generally portray leader humility as beneficial, whereas a minority of studies recognize potential negative influences. This is probably most clearly the case in the study of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) for which both positive and negative relationships with leader humility have been established. We advance the analysis of the leader humility—OCB relationship by proposing that leader humility has diminishing returns, such that its effects are positive at lower levels but at higher levels turn negative. We argue that high levels of leader humility boost followers’ views of themselves, as expressed in higher levels of pride, which gives rise to psychological entitlement. Such entitlement in turn reduces OCB. This suggests a model in which leader humility has a curvilinear, increasing returns, relationship with follower entitlement, mediated by follower pride, that in turn mediates a curvilinear, decreasing returns, relationship with OCB. Results of a multiwave, multisource survey supported these predictions.
即使甘露过量也是有毒的:领导者谦逊对骄傲、权利和组织公民行为的影响
关于领导者谦逊效应的研究通常将领导者谦逊描述为有益的,而少数研究则认识到潜在的负面影响。在组织公民行为(OCB)的研究中,这一点可能最为明显,因为组织公民行为与领导者谦逊的正、负关系已经建立起来。我们进一步分析了领导者谦逊与组织公民行为之间的关系,提出领导者谦逊存在收益递减效应,即在较低水平下其效应为正,而在较高水平上则为负。我们认为,领导者的高度谦逊提升了下属对自己的看法,表现为更高的自豪感,从而产生了心理上的权利。这种权利反过来又减少了OCB。这表明了一个模型,在这个模型中,领导者谦卑与下属权利之间存在一个曲线关系,即收益递增关系,由下属骄傲介导,而下属骄傲又介导了与组织公民行为之间的曲线关系,即收益递减关系。一项多波、多源调查的结果支持了这些预测。
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