Situational moderators of leader reward and punishment behaviors: fact or fiction?
| Autor: | Vandra L. Huber, Richard A. Grover, William D. Todor, Philip M. Podsakoff |
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| Rok vydání: | 1984 |
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Punishment (psychology)
Pharmacy Administration General Medicine Job Satisfaction United States Developmental psychology Leadership Reward Organizational behavior Job performance Management methods Humans Job satisfaction Situational ethics Psychology Factor Analysis Statistical Pharmacy Service Hospital Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Organizational behavior and human performance. 34(1) |
| ISSN: | 0030-5073 |
| Popis: | One assumption shared by many contemporary models of leadership is that situational variables moderate the relationships between leader behaviors and subordinate responses. Recently, however, R. J. House and J. L. Baetz (1979 in B. Staw & L. Cummings, Eds., Research in Organizational Behavior (Vol. 1), Greenwich, Connecticut, JAI Press) have suggested that the effects of some leader traits and behaviors may be relatively invariant; that is, have the same effects in a variety of situations. One possible class of leader behaviors which may have relatively consistent effects across situations are those known as leader reward and punishment behaviors. The first goal of the research reported here was to increase our understanding of the relationships between leader contingent and noncontingent reward and punishment behaviors and subordinate responses. Contingent reward behavior was found to have the most pronounced relationships with subordinate performance and satisfaction, followed by noncontingent punishment behavior. Neither leader noncontingent reward nor contingent punishment behavior were found to be related to either subordinate performance or satisfaction, with the exception that noncontingent reward behavior was negatively related to subordinates' satisfaction with work. The second goal of the research was to examine the effects of a variety of potential moderators on the relationships between leader reward and punishment behaviors and subordinate responses. The results of this study suggest that the relationships between leader reward and punishment behaviors and subordinates' performance are relatively free of moderating effects. |
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