The trickle-down effect of mayors’ and administrators’ change leadership on employees’ change-supportive behaviour during COVID-19: The importance of local root similarity
研究新冠疫情背景下，市长的变革领导力通过行政长官的中介作用，对员工变革支持行为产生涓滴效应，并考察地方根源相似性的调节作用。
Despite extensive studies on change leadership, there is a lack of research on its multilevel nature especially in the hierarchical context of local governance. We situate our research in the context of change during COVID-19 to examine whether mayors’ change leadership has a trickle-down effect on employees’ change-supportive behaviour via the change leadership role of chief administrative officers (CAOs). We also ask whether this trickle-down effect depends on whether mayors, CAOs and employees share their local roots (i.e. local root similarity). Multi-source data were collected from 79 CAOs and 758 employees in Thailand. The proposed hypotheses were generally supported.