| Authoritarian Leadership and Employee Work Outcomes: Test of a Multilevel Moderated Mediation Model |
Received:October 13, 2017 Revised:October 13, 2017 |
Key Words: authoritarian leadership, relational identification, group traditionality, employee work outcomes |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | Yimo Shen | Southwest University | | Wan-Ju Chou* | Chung Yuan Christian University | | John M. Schaubroeck | Michigan State University |
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Abstract: |
| In the current study, we developed and tested a moderated mediation model of the relationship between authoritarian leadership and desirable employee work behaviors (i.e., job performance and organization-directed citizenship behavior, OCBO) through relational identification. Analyses of multilevel, multisource and time-lagged data from 53 supervisors and 215 subordinates showed that group traditionality moderates the relationship between authoritarian leadership and both relational identification and OCBO, such that authoritarian leadership has a weaker negative relationship with relational identification and OCBO when group traditionality is relatively high. This moderated relationship conditions the indirect relationship between authoritarian leadership and supervisor-rated job performance and OCBO. These findings extend our understanding of the relationship between authoritarian leadership and employee work outcomes, and suggest ways organizations may seek to mitigate the extent to which authoritarian leadership hampers employee work outcomes. |
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