A Research On The Mechanism Of Responsible Leadership Influence On Job Performance

With the emergency of so many financial companies’ business scandals similar toEnron, the public are concerning more and more about enterprise leaders’ moral characterand behavior of responsibility, thus, responsible leadership and the research of it arise atthe historic moment. How does responsible leadership impact on employees’ jobperformance? How does it influence job performance level? Discussion of these issueshas become an inevitable important subject in management. Based on a review ofrelevant theories at home and abroad on responsible leadership, Leader-MemberExchange (LMX) and job performance, this thesis explores the mechanism of responsibleleadership’s effect on employees’ job performance, and studies the model of themechanism of responsible leadership’s effect on job performance by using empiricalresearch method.The main conclusions are as follows:(1) Moral integrity, open communication andcaring guidance of responsible leadership have significant positive impact on jobperformance, but the impact of active citizenship behavior on it is not notable.(2) Moralintegrity, open communication and caring guidance of responsible leadership havesignificant positive impact on the exchange between leaders and members, but the impactof active citizenship behavior on it is not notable.(3) The exchange between leaders andmembers has a significant positive impact on job performance.(4) Under the influence ofthe exchange between leaders and members, the influence that responsible leadership’smoral integrity, open communication and caring guidance, and active citizenshipbehavior impact on job performance has declined, but still significantly. The exchangebetween leaders and members partly plays an intermediary role between responsibleleadership and job performance.(5) Managers’ leadership behavior should be differentdue to the differences of employees’ service period and gender. Compared withemployees with short length of service period,it’s more suitable for staff with longer length of service period to take leadership behavior of high transparent relationship;Male leaders will build high quality relationship in the process of leading subordinatesthan female leaders.This study not only enriches the responsible leadership theory and provides a certainreference meaning for fully understanding the mechanism of responsible leadership,butalso has practical significance for selecting suitable business leaders and improvingleadership assessment and training system.