Authoritarian leadership supervisor support and workers’ compulsory citizenship behavior
Abstract
Purpose
Drawing on uncertainty management theory, the purpose of this paper is to propose that experiencing the authoritarian leadership (AL) will weaken followers’ self-efficacy, which induces their compulsory citizenship behaviors (CCBs), defined as workers’ unwilling prosocial behaviors in helping colleagues.
Design/methodology/approach
Survey/regression: data collected from Taiwanese workers supports the proposal.
Findings
The results not only support the proposal but also show that supervisor support will exacerbate the negative effect of AL with workers’ self-efficacy. Further, workers’ political skill will attenuate the above relationship.
Originality/value
This study complements scholarly knowledge about how AL, supervisor support, and political skill together influence workers’ self-efficacy, which then induces CCBs. The findings also remind supervisors not to offer support while at the same time demonstrating an AL style.
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Citation
Shu, C.-Y., Chiang, Y.-H. and Lu, C.-H. (2018), "Authoritarian leadership supervisor support and workers’ compulsory citizenship behavior", International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 39 No. 3, pp. 468-485. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-10-2016-0191
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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