员工授权期望的效应及其理论机制

The effects of employee empowerment expectation:The underlying theoretical explanations

以往对领导授权行为的研究大都以领导为中心,探讨领导授权行为的有效性。随着追随理论的兴起,越来越多的研究强调从员工视角探讨领导有效性。期望在组织管理中扮演重要角色,员工授权期望是指员工形成的有关组织中的领导在权力授予方面应尽职责与义务的规范性认知。在系统梳理员工授权期望概念与测量的基础上,分别从角色设定理论、领导分类理论、期望落差理论梳理了员工授权期望的作用效果与研究结论,最后从基于内隐领导理论的变量测量、相关理论的机制探讨、追随理论的模型扩展、期望管理的前因探索等方面提出了未来研究的展望。

Most of previous research on empowering leader behavior has adopted a leader-centric approach to examine its effectiveness.With the arising of followership theory,more research has emphasized the importance of examining leadership effectiveness from the follower-centric approach.Expectation plays an import role in management.Employee empowerment expectation refers to a set of norms that employees perceived about the responsibilities and obligations the leader should shoulder in terms of empowering.Based on reviewing the concept and measurement of employee empowerment expectation,the main findings from several theories such as role set theory,leadership categorization theory and met expectation theory are summarized.Finally,the future directions are discussed from several aspects:the validation of measurement based on implicit leadership theory,the logical framework from followership theory,the mechanism through integrating related theories,and the antecedents of subordinate empowerment expectation from the perspective of expectation management.