This research investigated the link between ethical leadership and performance using data from the People’s Republic of China. Consistent with social exchange, social learning, and social identity theories, we examined leader–member exchange (LMX), self-efficacy, and organizational identification as mediators of the ethical leadership to performance relationship. Results from 72 supervisors and...

Purpose The current paper aims to analyse the antecedents of leader–member exchange relationships (LMX) by specifically focusing on influence supervisor’s feedback delivery tactic. Design/methodology/approach This study uses qualitative research methods with primary interviews as main data source. Primary 40 managers from top supermarkets in Nigeria, South Africa and UK were undertaken. Finding...

This study examines why and when employees might respond to job insecurity by engaging in workplace deviance and developing intentions to leave-2 activities that are costly for organizations. Drawing on social exchange theory and the theory of moral disengagement, we propose that job insecurity increases workplace deviance and intentions to leave by encouraging employees to morally disengage. W...

Based on social exchange theory, we examined and contrasted attitudinal mediators (affective organizational commitment, job satisfaction) and relational mediators (trust in leader, leader-member exchange; LMX) of the positive relationship between transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Hypotheses were tested using meta-analytic path models with correlations fr...

This study examines the buffering role of a psychological contract breach in process leading from façade creation (i.e., suppressing one’s own values and pretending to hold organization values) workplace bullying through leader–member exchange (LMX). predicts that creation, particularly when level is high, produces high LMX, which reduces workplace. In total, 302 employee–employer dyads (265 ma...

Machiavellian leadership, an emerging form of toxic has been noticed to have serious negative effects on organizations. Thus, expanding the literature dark styles this study specifically examines mechanism via which leadership departmental heads (HODs) may hinder university teachers’ creativity by considering mediating effect enterprising tendency. Furthermore, considers leader-member exchange ...

The past is history, the present accurate, and future uncertain. world also getting along with many lives organizations. Along within time, organizations are apparent leader-member exchange (LMX) that may be unavoidable, realized in form of any relationships social context. atmosphere brings forth engagement performance groups or communities. essential variables driving encouraging LMX to becom...