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Published on: January 19, 2019
The experimental research on leaders and cooperative behavior
Xiaogai Fu1, Chaoyang Li2, Jialin Fu1
1School of Economics and Management, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou, China.
Abstract:
Leaders are critical to a team or organization, their behavior affects employees' psychology and their work effort, and then affects the efficiency and innovation of the team or organization. Previous studies have focused on the role model of leaders, ignoring the guiding role of leaders with different efforts. This paper introduces leader decision-making into the game of public goods to investigate the exemplary role of leaders in behavior decision-making. It divides them into three types by setting the investment amount of leaders to explore the mechanism of leaders' influence in behavior decision-making and behavior change of team members when facing the transformation of leaders with different investment types. This research can provide a significant reference value for enterprises and social organizations on how to play the role of leaders.
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