Is team commitment related to dialogue about corporate purpose?
研究了团队领导与成员之间关于企业目的的对话如何影响团队承诺，发现对话通过增强任务共识提升承诺，且受领导成员交换质量差异和成员自主权调节。
This paper examines the relationship between communication regarding a firm's purpose between a team leader and individual team members (referred to as “purpose dialogue”) and the resulting levels of team commitment. We hypothesize that increased dialogue about purpose will lead to higher team commitment by enhancing consensus on the team's tasks and objectives. We also expect that this relationship will be negatively moderated by the variation in leader-member exchange quality (that undermines this consensus) and positively by autonomy given by leaders to individual team members (which reinforces it.) Using data from 469 firms and 57,440 individual observations, we find support for our hypotheses across different specifications. This paper contributes to research on corporate purpose at the team level, leader-member exchange theory, and management practice.