A Study On The Relationship Between Leader-member Exchange And Turnover Intention Of Family Firm

There is a great development of China’s family firms during these years, moreand more China’s family firms come to be listed. But during collected survey data, theaverage life of our China family firm is only3.5years, there many reasons effect onthis condition. Among these reasons, core talent teams are not steady and high staffturnover are seriously impact on the life and development of China’s family firms.Therefore the study of staff turnover intention is very important.Leader-member exchange (LMX) is one of the most popular leadership theories,it considers that the validity of leader behavior depend on the two-way choicebetween the leader and his subordinates. Limited on leaders’ time and energy, theycould not use the same way treat their subordinates. So distinguish “inside”and“outside”is meaningful. During the past studies, the “in-group members” usually havebetter performance evaluation results, more chances of promotion and low turnoverintention. So different employees have different organizational justice perception, andthen it will have negative impact, such as lower job satisfaction, turnover intention,behavior elevated and so on.This thesis construct conceptual model based on the theory, probe into somerelationship about China’s family firm. Include the quality between LMXrelationships, sense of organizational justice and staff turnover intention. As thetheories of LMX are developed from the west, to verify the adaptability on Chineseculture, we add culture atmosphere as a moderator. Through the empirical studies, wefound that LMX relationship is positively correlated with organizational justiceperception negatively interrelated with staff turnover; culture atmosphere regulate therelationship between LMX and organizational justice perception; organizationaljustice perception mediate between LMX and staff turnover intention. This thesishave advanced some countermeasures and suggestions for china’s family firm’development about LMX relationship based on empirical studies, also point outinadequacies and research directions in the future.