The Impact of Authoritarian Leadership on Employee's Silence Behavior: A Study of a Moderated Mediating Effect

Abstract

Abstract: Drawing on 249 dyads of employees and their immediate supervisors, the study attempts to probe the mechanism of the impact of the authoritarian leadership on employees' silence behavior, especially to explore the mediating role of the affect-based trust and the moderating role of the employees' power distance in Chinese organizational context. The results indicate that:1) Authoritarian leadership has a positive effect on employees' silence behavior. 2) Affect-based trust with the supervisor plays a full mediating role between authoritarian leadership and employees' silence behavior. 3) Power distance moderates the relationship between authoritarian leadership and affect-based trust. Specifically, authoritarian leadership is more negatively related to affect-based trust when power distance is high. 4) Power distance moderated the mediating role of affect-based trust in the relationship between authoritarian leadership and employees' silence behavior. That is, the higher the employees' power distance is, the stronger the mediating effect of affect-based trust with the supervisor.

Key words: authoritarian leadership, affect-based trust, power distance, silence behavior

摘要： 采用249对领导与员工的配对数据，考察了威权领导对员工沉默行为的影响，以及情感信任的中介作用和权力距离的调节效应。结果表明：（1）威权领导对员工沉默行为有正向影响；（2）员工对上司的情感信任在威权领导与沉默行为之间起完全中介作用；（3）员工权力距离导向对威权领导与情感信任之间关系具有调节作用，权力距离导向越高，威权领导对情感信任的影响越低；（4）进一步地，权力距离导向还调节着情感信任对威权领导与沉默行为的中介效应，即存在有调节的中介效应。

关键词: 威权领导, 情感信任, 权力距离, 沉默行为

CLC Number:

B849

LI Zongbo, WANG Minghui. The Impact of Authoritarian Leadership on Employee's Silence Behavior: A Study of a Moderated Mediating Effect[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2018, 16(5): 713-719.

李宗波, 王明辉. 威权领导对员工沉默行为的影响:一个有调节的中介效应模型[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2018, 16(5): 713-719.

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