道德心智:服务型领导如何以及何时影响员工惠及多个利益相关者?

Moral minds: How and when does servant leadership influence employees to benefit multiple stakeholders?

PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY · 2023
被引 27
人大 AABS 4*

中文导读

基于服务型领导的道德基础(功利后果主义)和社会学习理论,研究了服务型领导如何通过员工他人导向和认知反思影响其对社区非营利组织和雇主的利他行为,并发现员工道德认同内化程度低时效果更显著。

Abstract

Abstract Servant leadership's unique focus on care and concern for multiple stakeholders has caught the attention of academic and practitioners alike. Its theoretical novelty, however, remains underutilized as a means to contribute unique insights to the leadership literature. We draw on servant leadership's moral foundation—utilitarian consequentialism—and social learning theory to identify cognitive mechanisms (follower other‐orientation and cognitive reflection) through which servant leadership affects employee behavior benefiting two stakeholder groups: a community nonprofit organization and the employing organization. Furthermore, we evaluate the degree to which an employee's moral identity internalization acts as a boundary condition of servant leadership's effects. Data were collected from 274 employee‐supervisor dyads across three waves with objective cognitive reflection scores and objective measures of workplace charitable giving and employee performance. Results supported all hypothesized predictions even after accounting for three alternative mediators. In particular, servant leadership had a positive indirect effect on workplace charitable giving through follower other‐orientation; it also had a positive indirect effect on objective follower financial performance through other‐orientation and cognitive reflection. Both indirect effects were significant at low levels of moral identity internalization but not at high levels. We discuss the implications of these findings and delineate directions for future research.

服务型领导社会学习理论员工行为道德认同利益相关者