The Impact of Benevolent Leadership on Employees' Pro-Environmental Behavior: The Role of Supervisor-Subordinate Guanxi and Power Distance

Abstract

Abstract: Drawing on 244 dyads of employees and their immediate supervisors, the study attemptes to probe the mechanism of the impact of the benevolent leadership on employees' workplace pro-environmental behavior, especially to explore the mediating role of the supervisor-subordinate guanxi and the moderating role of the employees' power distance in Chinese organizational context. The results indicate that benevolent leadership shows a positive effect on workplace pro-environmental behavior; Supervisor-subordinate guanxi plays a full mediating role between benevolent leadership and employees' workplace pro-environmental behavior; Power distance moderates the relationship between benevolent leadership and supervisor-subordinate guanxi. Specifically, benevolent leadership is more positively related to supervisor-subordinate guanxi when the subordinate's sense of power distance is weak, and vice versa.

Key words: benevolent leadership, supervisor-subordinate guanxi, power distance, pro-environmental behavior

摘要： 旨在基于社会交换理论考察仁慈领导是否能够促进工作场所中的员工亲环境行为，以及上下属关系和员工权力距离导向在该影响过程中的作用机制。采用“领导-员工对偶”问卷调查法，通过对244名企业员工及其直接上司的调查，结果发现：仁慈领导对员工亲环境行为具有显著的正向预测作用；上下属关系在仁慈领导与亲环境行为之间起完全中介作用；员工权力距离导向对仁慈领导与上下属关系之间的关系存在显著的调节效应；具体而言，当下属权力距离感较弱时，仁慈领导对上下属关系的激发作用越强，反之亦然。

关键词: 仁慈领导, 上下属关系, 权力距离, 亲环境行为

CLC Number:

B849

ZHAO Shenran, KANG Mengmeng, WANG Minghui, PENG Cui. The Impact of Benevolent Leadership on Employees' Pro-Environmental Behavior: The Role of Supervisor-Subordinate Guanxi and Power Distance[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2018, 16(6): 819-826.

赵申苒, 康萌萌, 王明辉, 彭翠. 仁慈领导对员工亲环境行为的影响：上下属关系与权力距离的作用[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2018, 16(6): 819-826.

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