当声音在经理-员工双重关系中采取破坏性而不是建设性的形式时:权力依赖的视角
Jing Wu1, Subrahmaniam Tangirala2, Pengcheng Zhang3
1Department of Communication and Culture, BI Norwegian Business School.
The Journal of applied psychology
|May 5, 2025
概括
员工的权力影响声音,但经理的权力决定它是建设性的还是破坏性的. 高管理者权力培养员工建设性的声音,而低管理者权力可以导致破坏性的声音.
科学领域:
- 组织行为 组织行为
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
- 管理学研究 管理学研究
背景情况:
- 权力动态显著影响员工与经理关系中的沟通.
- 了解员工的声音需要考虑二元期的相互权力平衡.
研究的目的:
- 检查员工权力和经理权力如何共同塑造员工声音的性质.
- 根据权力差异,区分建设性和破坏性的员工声音.
主要方法:
- 一个关系视角,分析员工-经理二元期中的权力.
- 来自预先注册的实验研究的实证支持.
- 通过两波多源现场研究进行验证.
主要成果:
- 增加员工权力,加上高管理权力,通过相互依赖的自我评估 (例如,基于组织的自尊) 来促进建设性的声音.
- 增加员工权力,管理权力低,可以通过独立的自我评估 (例如,自我通货膨胀) 导致破坏性的声音.
- 管理权力在员工权力-声音关系中起着至关重要的调节作用.
结论:
- 员工发言的形式取决于员工与管理权力之间的相互作用.
- 相互依赖的自我评估促进了功能性声音,而膨胀的自我评估可能会导致消极性.
- 这些发现为管理权力动态提供了影响,以鼓励员工的生产性贡献.
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