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Paternalistic Leadership, In Charge Of The Trust, In Charge Of Loyalty

Posted on:2007-07-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2199360212957209Subject:Business management
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Paternalistic Leadership is prevailed in chinese organization.It include three elements: Moral leadership, Authoritarian leadership and Benevolent leadership.Trust is the basis of interpeasonal exchange,it is the bond of the resources in organization.Employee's supervisory loyalty is an important predictor of the employee's extra-role behavior, job satisfaction,intent to turn over and work performance.Locus of control is one of the employee's personal trait, also an predictor of the employee's performance. Based on the empirical study, the thesis discuss the relationship among the construct mentioned above.The study include three phases:First, we carefully review the literature about these concepts,and advance the construct model of the study,based on it ,we produced a set of hypothesises;Then, we conduct a questionare research, and collect the data for further analysis from the employees of organizations of different industries and different ownership in the city of Shanghai,Hangzhou and Ningbo;Finally,we use the Structural Equation Model Approach to analyze the data we collected.the outcome mainly prove our propositions,including:1. Paternalistic Leadership is a common leadership phenomena in mainland china.The three element of Paternalistic Leadership,including Moral leadership, Authoritarian leadership and Benevolent leadership, have good construct validity, therefore can describe the chinese leadership behavior fitly.2. Paternalistic Leadership can obviously predict the employee's supervisory trust,and the three element have distinct impact on the two level of supervisory trust from eachother. Moral leadership influence the employee's cognition-based trust directly; Authoritarian leadership has a slightly negative effect on the employee's affection-based trust; Benevolent leadership also influence on the affection-based trust, but in a considerable positive way.3. Employee's supervisory trust can predict the employee's supervisory loyalty. Cognition- based trust have an impact on every dimension of the supervisory loyalty; meanwhile, affection- based trust influence the identification-internalition dimension and following dimension.4. Employee's supervisory trust mediate the relationship between Paternalistic Leadership and Employee's supervisory loyalty.5. Furthermore, Paternalistic Leadership have direct impact on Employee's supervisory loyalty. Benevolent leadership directly affect the identification -internalition dimension of Employee's supervisory loyalty;meanwhile, Authoritarian leadership affect the following directly.6. The control-intention moderate the relationship between Authoritarian leadership and following dimension of Employee's supervisory loyalty.The employee of internal control-intention will follow the Authoritarian leadership more unlikely.
Keywords/Search Tags:Paternalistic Leadership, Supervisory trust, Supervisory loyalty, Locus of control
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