给鱼或教鱼:检查领导者的自主性和依赖性,帮助行为
Jessica J W Paek1, Hemant Kakkar2
1Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Indiana University.
The Journal of applied psychology
|June 16, 2025
概括
领导者以两种方式提供帮助:依赖性帮助,促进依赖,自主性帮助,促进赋权. 主导的领导者提供了更多的依赖帮助,而以声望为中心的领导者提供了更多的自治帮助.
科学领域:
- 组织心理学 组织心理学
- 领导力研究 领导力研究
- 行为经济学是一种行为经济学.
背景情况:
- 领导者的帮助行为对于员工福祉和组织成功至关重要.
- 现有的研究对领导者提供的不同类型的帮助提供了有限的见解.
- 领导者可能会提供依赖性帮助 (为员工解决问题) 或自主性帮助 (赋予员工权力).
研究的目的:
- 调查领导者的统治和声望取向如何影响他们的帮助行为.
- 探索零和思维和地位威胁在调节这些领导风格中的作用.
- 开发和验证一个衡量自主性和依赖性帮助行为的尺度.
主要方法:
- 两个预先注册的实验和两个大规模的,预先注册的,时间滞后的实地研究.
- 在一项研究中收集了128名员工的数据,在另一项研究中收集了105名主管和420名员工的数据.
- 开发一种新的尺度来衡量工作场所的自主性和依赖性帮助行为.
主要成果:
- 主导地位较高的领导者提供了更多的依赖性帮助和更少的自主性帮助.
- 高声望的领导人提供了更多的自主性帮助和更少的依赖性帮助.
- 零和思维和地位威胁被检查了它们对帮助行为的缓和效应.
结论:
- 领导者的潜在动机 (主导与声望) 系统地塑造了他们对员工支持的方法.
- 了解这些区别是优化领导力效率和员工发展的关键.
- 这些发现提供了对领导力帮助行为及其先例的细微观点.
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