Hierarchical Leader-Leader Fit: Examining Authentic Leader Dyads and Implications for Junior Leader Outcomes

IF 5 3区 管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT
Sean T. Hannah, Dustin Bluhm, Bruce J. Avolio
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Leaders at lower levels do not lead in a vacuum; they must lead within the context of the leadership they experience themselves from their next higher-level leader. We propose that lower-level leaders’ thoughts and attitudes and thereby their behaviors are influenced by the level of compatibility of their own style of leadership with that of their senior leader. Drawing from person-environment fit theory, we propose the concept of hierarchical leader-leader fit by assessing the level of congruence between the authentic leadership style of senior and junior leader dyads, and the resulting effects of levels of (mis)fit on the junior leader's behaviors in the form of performance and deviance. In two samples inclusive of both business and military leaders, using polynomial regression and response surface analysis, we find that fit (misfit) between the senior leader's and junior leader's respective levels of authentic leadership in the dyad is positively (negatively) associated with the junior leader's performance and is negatively (positively) associated with the junior leader's deviance. Surprisingly, when two leaders have high levels of fit, we find similar desirable effects on performance and deviance regardless of whether both leaders practice low (low-low) or high (high-high) levels of authentic leadership. Theoretical and practical implications of the degree of fit between leaders operating at different organizational levels, and of leadership as a contextually embedded relationship are discussed.
层级式领导-领导契合度:考察真实领导者组合及其对初级领导者成果的影响
下级领导者并不是在真空中进行领导,他们必须在自己从上一级领导者那里体验到的领导风格的背景下进行领导。我们认为,下级领导者的思想和态度,进而他们的行为,都会受到自身领导风格与上级领导风格的契合程度的影响。借鉴人与环境契合理论,我们提出了 "层级领导与领导者契合 "的概念,通过评估高层领导与下级领导之间真实领导风格的一致程度,以及由此产生的契合程度(误)对下级领导行为的影响(表现为绩效和偏差)。通过多项式回归和响应面分析法,我们在两个包含商界和军界领导者的样本中发现,高级领导者和低级领导者各自的真实领导力水平之间的契合度(不契合度)与低级领导者的绩效呈正(负)相关,与低级领导者的偏差呈负(正)相关。令人惊讶的是,当两位领导者的契合度较高时,我们发现无论两位领导者的真实领导力水平是低(低-低)还是高(高-高),都会对绩效和偏差产生类似的理想影响。本文讨论了不同组织层级的领导者之间的契合度以及领导力作为一种嵌入式关系的理论和实践意义。
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