scholarly journals Managing the Uncertainties Inherent in Prohibitive Voice: How Leadership Interacts With Employee Political Skill

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoxuan Wang ◽  
Fan Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Behavior ◽  
Political Skill ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Authoritarian Leadership ◽  
Managerial Practices ◽  
Power Company ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Uncertainty Management Theory ◽  
Humble Leadership ◽  
Prohibitive Voice

Drawing from the uncertainty management theory, we examine how authoritarian leadership and humble leadership interact with employee political skill to predict prohibitive voice. We conducted a two-wave survey study of 43 managers and 176 subordinates in a power company in China. Our findings indicate that authoritarian leadership has a minimal negative effect on the psychological safety of employees with higher political skill, which in turn leads to a minimal negative effect on their prohibitive voice. Moreover, humble leadership is positively associated with prohibitive voice for employees with lower political skill. For employees with higher political skill, no type of leadership behavior has a significant influence on their prohibitive voice. We outline the implications of these findings for both theoretical and managerial practices.

Authoritarian leadership supervisor support and workers’ compulsory citizenship behavior

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 468-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chin-Yi Shu ◽  
Yun-Haw Chiang ◽  
Ching-Hua Lu
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Political Skill ◽  
Supervisor Support ◽  
Citizenship Behavior ◽  
Citizenship Behaviors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Authoritarian Leadership ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Uncertainty Management Theory

Purpose Drawing on uncertainty management theory, the purpose of this paper is to propose that experiencing the authoritarian leadership (AL) will weaken followers’ self-efficacy, which induces their compulsory citizenship behaviors (CCBs), defined as workers’ unwilling prosocial behaviors in helping colleagues. Design/methodology/approach Survey/regression: data collected from Taiwanese workers supports the proposal. Findings The results not only support the proposal but also show that supervisor support will exacerbate the negative effect of AL with workers’ self-efficacy. Further, workers’ political skill will attenuate the above relationship. Originality/value This study complements scholarly knowledge about how AL, supervisor support, and political skill together influence workers’ self-efficacy, which then induces CCBs. The findings also remind supervisors not to offer support while at the same time demonstrating an AL style.

scholarly journals Parents’ Career Values, Adaptability, Career-Specific Parenting Behaviors, and Undergraduates’ Career Adaptability

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (7) ◽  
pp. 922-946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanjun Guan ◽  
Zhen Wang ◽  
Qing Gong ◽  
Zijun Cai ◽  
Sabrina Lingxiao Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parental Support ◽  
Parenting Behaviors ◽  
Parental Engagement ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Career Values ◽  
Negative Effect

This study examined how Chinese parents’ career values and adaptability predict their career-specific parenting behaviors and their children’s career adaptability. We conducted a survey study with Chinese university students and their parents ( N = 264), and found support for the mediating roles of career-specific parenting behaviors in linking parents’ vocational characteristics and children’s career adaptability. Specifically, parental support is positively related to parents’ intrinsic fulfillment values, work–life balance values, and career adaptability. Moreover, parental support mediates the relationship between these variables and undergraduates’ career adaptability. Parental engagement mediates the negative effect of external compensation values and positive effect of work–life balance values on undergraduates’ career adaptability. Parental interference is negatively related to parents’ work–life balance values, and positively related to their external compensation values and career adaptability, but does not significantly predict undergraduates’ career adaptability. These findings advance current understanding of the career construction theory.

scholarly journals Deterrence Effects: The Role of Authoritarian Leadership in Controlling Employee Workplace Deviance

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 377-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuyan Zheng ◽  
Xu Huang ◽  
Les Graham ◽  
Tom Redman ◽  
Saiquan Hu
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Behavior ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Workplace Deviance ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Authoritarian Leadership ◽  
Employee Deviance ◽  
Interpersonal Deviance

ABSTRACTDrawing upon two independent samples from mainland China, we propose and investigate the deterrence function of leadership behavior focused on control. We suggest that controlling leadership, specifically, authoritarian leadership, deters employees’ deviance under certain conditions. That is, authoritarian leadership thwarts employees’ interpersonal deviance behavior when leaders send clear signals of potential punishments of non-compliance by showing low leader benevolence, and when employees are highly dependent on the leaders for important work resources. Results from two independent studies largely support our key propositions. Overall, these results add to the range of possible impacts that a leader can play in decreasing employee deviance. Theoretical implications and directions for follow-up research are discussed.

scholarly journals MEMETAKAN BUDAYA ORGANISASIATAS DASAR GAYA KEPEMIMPINAN DAN PENGARUHNYA TERHADAP KINERJA DOSEN

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sugeng Mulyono ◽  
Jamal Abdul Nasir
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Private University ◽  
Performance Style ◽  
Authoritarian Leadership ◽  
Democratic Leadership ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Laissez Faire ◽  
Positive Effect

This research aimed to describe organizational cultural and style of leadership, analyzing organizational culture pursuant to style of leadership, analyzing organizational cultural influence to performance of lecture, and analyzing the direct and indirect influence of leadership style to the Private University lecturers’ performance. In taking the sample it uses multi stages of sampling with amount of sample as much 280 lectures. Data collecting uses questioner, interview and detection of relevant document; while analysis of data uses descriptive analysis and path analysis. The results of research indicate that: style of authority leadership have a negativity effect and significant to organizational culture; style of democratic leadership and laissez faire have positive effect and significant to organizational culture; style of democratic and authoritarian leadership have a positive effect and significant to the lecturers’ performance; style of leadership laissez faire have a negative effect and significant to the lecturers’ performance; organizational cultural have a positive effect and significant to the lecturers’ performance; leadership authority and democratic style indirectly influence positively and significant to the lecturers’ performance; and leadership style of laissez faire indirectly negatively influences the lecturers’ performance.

scholarly journals We have emotions but can’t show them! Authoritarian leadership, emotion suppression climate, and team performance

2020 ◽  
pp. 001872672090864
Author(s):  
Jack Ting-Ju Chiang ◽  
Xiao-Ping Chen ◽  
Haiyang Liu ◽  
Satoshi Akutsu ◽  
Zheng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Style ◽  
Team Performance ◽  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Team Climate ◽  
Emotional Climate ◽  
Emotion Suppression ◽  
Mediation Effects ◽  
Authoritarian Leadership ◽  
Emotions In The Workplace

How do authoritarian leaders in modern organizations influence work team emotional climate and performance? Defining authoritarian leadership as an ambient, demanding, and controlling leadership style, we conducted a survey study of 252 leaders and 765 subordinates matched in 227 work teams in three large public Japanese organizations. The results indicate that authoritarian leaders are more likely to create a team climate of emotion suppression, which induces a higher level of team emotional exhaustion that negatively impacts team performance. Furthermore, we found that authoritarian leaders’ own emotion suppression enhances the above sequential mediation effects, i.e. the more emotion suppression the authoritarian leader him/herself exercises, the stronger the team climate of emotion suppression, the higher the level of team emotional exhaustion, and the lower the team performance. These findings suggest that leadership effectiveness may be improved if leaders can reduce their authoritarian behaviors and identify appropriate channels for employees to release emotions in the workplace.

TOOLS OR SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVING ACCESSIBILITY TO FINANCIAL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES.

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Michael Njeru Njue ◽  
Marion Mbogo
Keyword(s):  
Small Businesses ◽  
Commercial Banks ◽  
Credit Scoring ◽  
Financial Education ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Sampling Frame ◽  
Access To Credit ◽  
Financial Products ◽  
Negative Effect

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to highlight the need for banks to develop financial products and services for small and medium enterprises.Methodology:The research design was descriptive survey study. The target population was 46 commercial banks .The sampling frame was the list of commercial banks given at the Central bank of Kenya Website. A sample of 17 banks was selected using random sampling. The second stage of sampling involved the selection of the respondents using a stratified sampling approach. The strata were the various departments that interact with SMEs in a bank. The respondents were the head of departments of the respective departments that form the strata. Both qualitative and quantitative data was collected using a questionnaire that consisted of both open ended and close ended questions. Data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS.Results: One of the study objectives was to establish the level of access to financial products and services offered by the banks to SMEs. Results from the bank manager’s perspective indicated that the level of access to finance was high, but the bank clients indicated otherwise, that it was low. The other objective of the study was to determine the factors that hinder the SMEs from accessing the financial products offered by banks. Results indicated that several factors influence access of SMEs to finance. These factors include gender, level of education, size of the business, age of the entrepreneur, collateral, and level of income for the entrepreneurs. All the factors had a negative effect on the access of finances from the banks by SMEs and hence indicate SMEs low access to financial products. Another objective of the study was to establish the tools or systems required to improve accessibility to financial products offered. Results indicated that there are tools and systems put in place by banks to improve accessibility to financial products offered to small and medium enterprises.Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy:The study recommended that training be emphasized to SME entrepreneurs on financial matters, all gender to be treated equally, the banks to introduce financial education programs for SMEs to improve their access to credit, banks to further make use of a credit scoring system to assess the credit worthiness of small businesses and to introduce the use of new credit bureau regulations to increase SME finances.

Political skill reduces the negative impact of distrust

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 442-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vickie Coleman Gallagher ◽  
James A. Meurs ◽  
Kenneth J. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Political Skill ◽  
Job Mobility ◽  
Work Outcomes ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Uncertainty Management Theory

Purpose A number of studies have explored the benefits (e.g. enhanced job performance and reduced strain), of being politically skilled. Within the framework of uncertainty management theory, the purpose of this paper is to explore the benefits of high political skill to affective commitment, job satisfaction, and perceived job mobility, under conditions of distrust in management. Design/methodology/approach Sales representatives were surveyed and moderated multiple regression analyses were conducted to analyze the data. Findings The authors found that as distrust increased, affective commitment decreased for all persons, but was most pronounced for persons low on political skill. However, distrust in management had no impact on job satisfaction for those high on political skill, allowing persons high on political skill to enjoy their jobs despite high levels of distrust (an intrapsychic benefit of political skill). Finally, as distrust in management increased, persons high on political skill had increased perceived job mobility. Research limitations/implications This study is cross-sectional, limiting conclusions about causality in the relationships studied and leaving open the possibility of reverse causation. Practical implications This research has important implications, such that, under conditions of distrust, persons low on political skill are less committed, more dissatisfied, and feel a sense of job immobility, which could lead to poor work outcomes, such as decreased job performance. Originality/value The study is the first to examine how being politically skilled benefits employee outcomes when the employee distrusts management.

scholarly journals How Humble Leadership Influences the Innovation of Technology Standards: A Moderated Mediation Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 5448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Jiang ◽  
Wentao Liu ◽  
Lili Jia
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Leadership Behavior ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Technology Standards ◽  
Job Complexity ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Humble Leadership

Management researchers have paid increasing attention to the role of humble leadership in innovation activities. The underlying mechanisms through which leader humility influences team innovation and outcomes, however, remain unclear. We aim to investigate the impact of humble leadership on the innovation of technology standards via knowledge exchange and combination and job complexity. We apply the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) to the survey data from 354 individuals who participated in technology standard innovation activities in China. Our empirical results show that knowledge exchange and combination play a mediating role between humble leadership behavior and the innovation of technology standards. Particularly, we find that job complexity moderates the positive relationship between knowledge exchange and combination and the innovation of technology standards in a nonlinear way. This is the first time that the latent mechanisms of humble leadership have been identified in the innovation of technology standards based on knowledge-based theory.

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