Linking leader-member exchange differentiation to work team performance

Leader-member exchange , Creative work involvement : The Importance of knowledge sharing

Leadership is important for nurturing employee creativity. Although how leaders can influence employee creativity is somehow unclear, previous studies show that leadership can enhance employees’ willingness to share knowledge. This study examines how leader-member exchange (LMX) affects employees’ creative work involvement through knowledge sharing. Data (n=385) was collected utilizing a questi...

A team level investigation of the relationship between Leader–Member Exchange (LMX) differentiation, and commitment and performance

Available online 20 January 2012 Although the differential treatment of team members by their leader is at the heart of Leader– Member Exchange (LMX) theory, empirical studies exploring the role of within-team LMX differentiation in relation to team outcomes are still relatively scarce. This study among 269 Dutch secondary school teachers from 33 different teams tested the hypotheses that the r...

Leader Role Inversion as a Corollary to Leader-Member Exchange

Linking ethical leadership to employee performance: The roles of leader–member exchange, self-efficacy, and organizational identification

This research investigated the link between ethical leadership and performance using data from the People’s Republic of China. Consistent with social exchange, social learning, and social identity theories, we examined leader–member exchange (LMX), self-efficacy, and organizational identification as mediators of the ethical leadership to performance relationship. Results from 72 supervisors and...

The impact of leader-member exchange (LMX) on work-family interference and work-family facilitation

Purpose – We analyze the effects of leadership on work-family spillovers. Specifically, we analyze the relationships between leadership (leader-member exchange, LMX) with one negative work-family spillover effect (work-family interference) and one positive work-family spillover effect (work-family facilitation). We hypothesize that LMX influences work-family spillover via different mediators, r...