中国文化背景下变革型领导风格对员工追随力的作用机制

The Impact of Transformational Leadership on Employee Followership in the Chinese Context

培养高追随力的下属是领导研究与管理实践中的新兴重要话题。文章基于本土文化情境,探究了变革型领导风格对员工追随力的影响作用以及潜在的影响机制。基于706名员工的实证研究表明,变革型领导对于员工追随力有显著的正向影响;员工心理授权在变革型领导与追随力之间起部分中介作用,而权力距离在变革型领导与员工心理授权之间、变革型领导与员工追随力之间的负向调节作用得到部分支持。本研究揭示了中国文化背景下变革型领导对下属追随力的影响关系,并给出了相应的实践启示,旨在推动本土研究的深化与企业管理实践的发展。

Cultivating high-followership subordinates is becoming a new and important topic in both leadership study and management practice. Taking root in the Chinese context, this paper investigates the influence of transformational leadership on employee followership and the underlying mechanisms. An empirical research based on a sample of 706 employees reveals that transformational leadership has a significantly positive effect on employee followership; employee psychological empowerment partially mediates the relationship between transformational leadership and employee fonowership; and the negative moderating effects of power distance between transformational leadership and employee psychological empowerment, as well as the association between transformational leadership and employee followership were partially supported. Our locally rooted research uncovers the impact mechanisms of transformational leadership on employee followership and provides several practical implications, with an aim to boost the progress of local studies as well as the development of management practice in China.