Team Delegation Degree And Team Members' Collective Turnover Intention:the Mediating Role Of Affective Commitment

With the rapid development of the social economy,market competition has become increasingly fierce.In order to control and utilize resources to a greater extent,improve work efficiency and organize core competitiveness,modern organizations are increasingly adopting the organizational form of teams.However,the widespread use of team organization forms to bring benefits to the organization,but also to the frequent team departures led by the team leader.Collective turnover not only causes large-scale employee turnover,but also increases the cost and burden of the organization's employment,which has caused a huge impact on the organization.Although employee turnover has always been the focus of academic circles at home and abroad,past research has focused on turnover at the individual level.With the advent of the era of knowledge economy,the competition for talents and the popularity of teamwork,the phenomenon of collective turnover will only become more common.Therefore,this research starts from the source and is dedicated to finding out the important reasons why team leaders can lead the team to leave.On the basis of combing the relevant theories of leadership-subordinate exchange theory,emotional commitment theory and authorization theory,this paper constructs the concept model and research hypothesis between the team delegation degree and the collective turnover intention of team members with the affective commitment to organization and the affective commitment to supervisor as mediators.Empirical research is carried out by using the individual and team level survey data.The research results show that the increase of the team delegation degree will promote the increase of team members' collective turnover intention,and the affective commitment to supervisor will play a full intermediary role in the relationshipbetween the team delegation degree and the team members' collective turnover intention;the team delegation degree does not affect the affective commitment to organization,but affective commitment to organization can significantly reduce the team members' collective turnover intention.The theoretical analysis and empirical results of this study show that,based on the exchange theory,it is reasonable and scientific to regard the team delegation degree as a factor that will affect the team members' collective turnover intention.This not only deepens the understanding of relationship among team delegation degree,affective commitment and team members' collective turnover intention,but also provides theoretical reference and practical guidance for the organization to prevent collective turnover and reduce losses.