Authoritarian Leadership and Workplace Deviance: Investigating Mediating Mechanism and Moderating Roles

• Main Authors: Peng-Yi Chua, 蔡秉毅
• Other Authors: Na-Ting Liu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17589110228705481891

碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 企業管理學系碩士班 === 100 === In this article, we examined the relationship between authoritarian leadership and workplace deviance based on social exchange theory. Drawing upon justice theory, we tested leader-member exchanges differentiation (LMX differentiation) as a mediator of the relationship between authoritarian leadership and workplace deviance. Additionally, traditionality and power distance were tested as a moderator of the relationship between LMX differentiation and workplace deviance. Based on a sample of 260 employees from Taiwanese companies, the result indicated that the authoritarian leadership contributed positively to workplace deviance. In addition, it also shows that LMX differentiation as a mediator of the relation between authoritarian leadership and workplace deviance. Finally, the relationship of LMX differentiation to organizational deviance and LMX differentiation to supervisor-directed deviance were more positive when traditionality were lower, rather than higher; the higher the power distance, the weaker the positive relationship between LMX differentiation and supervisor-directed deviance. Limitations of the study and implications for future and practices were discussed.