主管信任真会促进员工任务绩效吗?——认知依赖和权力距离的作用

Can Supervisory Trust Really Improve Employees' Task Performance?——The Role of Cognitive Dependence and Power Distance

主管信任是否能促进任务绩效当前还存在争议。文章以认知依赖为中介、以权力距离为调节,探索主管信任对员工任务绩效的"双刃剑"效应。通过对67家企业的468套主管-下属配对数据进行分析,研究表明:主管信任对任务绩效的影响显著,其总效应和直接影响均为正向;认知依赖在两者之间起着部分中介作用,主管信任通过认知依赖间接负向影响任务绩效;权力距离正向调节主管信任与认知依赖的关系。

At present, there still are some disputes about the effect of supervisory trust on employees＇ task performance. The current study explores the influence mechanism of the supervisory trust on task performance, and examines the mediating effect of cognitive dependence and the moderating effect of power distance. Based on a sample of 468 sets of supervisor-subordinate questionnaires from 67 companies, the research results indicate that supervisory trust has a significant and positive effect on employees＇ task performance, and cognitive dependence plays a partial mediating role between supervisory trust and task performance, and power distance can positively adjust the effect of supervisory trust on cognitive dependence.