The Effect Of Leader-Employee Congruence In Leader-Member Exchange On Deviance Behavior

Employees' attitudes and behaviors at work are not only unilaterally influenced by leaders or employees.These roles are necessarily involved with each other,especially leader-member exchange(LMX).As the interactive process and interactive results of leaders or employees,LMX must be influenced by the interaction of the roles of both parties.In other words,LMX perceived by leaders and the LMX perceived by employees not only affect employees' attitudes and behaviors individually,but their binary "consistency" is more likely to play an important role in predicting employees' attitudes and behaviors more effectively.So based on role theory,from the perspective of "consistency" of the LMX perceived by both the leaders and the employees,this paper studies the effect of leader-employee congruence in leader-member exchange on the employees' deviance behavior,which is the possibility from the “binary interaction” to being a “good employee”.Based on role theory,from the perspective of "dual" between leader and employee,this paper randomly selected the leader-employee fit data of 3 small and medium sized tech-enterprises to examine the effect of leader-employee congruence in leader-member exchange on the deviance behavior.The results showed that the more aligned an employee's and his or her leader's levels of leader-member exchange are,the higher their affective commitment and the lower their deviance behavior.And it also showed that affective commitment is higher and interpersonal deviance behavior is lower when an employee's leader-member exchange is higher than a leader's rather than when a leader's leader-member exchange is higher than an employee's.In addition,affective commitment played a mediator role between the leader-employee congruence in leader-member exchange and the interpersonal deviance behavior.The results of this study boast of important theoretical and practical significance.The theoretical significance is as follows: First of all,enriched the role theory from the perspective of "dual interaction" between leaders and employees.That is to say the role theory is applied in the process of interactions between different roles of individuals and organizations from the perspective of Role Process.Secondly,not only helps to comprehensively understand the background of the employees' deviation behavior,but also broadens the antecedents of employees' deviation behavior from the aspect of role interaction especially the "consistency" of LMX perceived by both leaders and employees;Finally,expanded the mediate mechanism between the "dual interaction" and the employees' negative behavior by exploring the mediating role of affective commitment.The practical significance is: in actual management,in addition to improving the quality of relationships between leaders and employees,it is also necessary to give full play to the "consistency" of LMX perceived by both leaders and employees.Based on the considering of the different perceptions of leaders and employees may have according to LMX and the role interaction processes and interactions to stimulate employees' positive emotions and avoid the negative behavior of employees.