Authoritarian Leadership and Extra-Role Behaviors: A Role-Perception Perspective

作者：Zhang, Yan^*; Xie, Yun Hui

来源：Management and Organization Review, 2017, 13(1): 147-166.

DOI：10.1017/mor.2016.36

• authoritarian leadership
• organizational citizenship behavior
• role ambiguity
• role conflict
• role overload
• supervisory behavior

Authoritarian leaders make unilateral decisions and prevail over subordinates. Such leadership, as a style of exercising formal authority and position power, may inhibit employees' extra-role behaviors in the hierarchical role structure. We explore employees' role perceptions to better understand how supervisors' authoritarian leadership decreases extra-role behaviors (OCBs). Authoritarian behavior is expected to generate subordinate perceptions of role conflict, role ambiguity, and role overload, with consequent negative effects on OCB. Hypotheses are tested using data from 613 subordinate supervisor dyads. Empirical results indicate that authoritarian leadership increases subordinate role conflict and overload which then decreases OCB. Authoritarian behavior also increases role ambiguity, but role ambiguity is not associated with OCB. The article concludes with research suggestions and practical implications.

• 出版日期2017-3
• 单位北京大学