Department of Management and Human Resources.
Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University.
J Appl Psychol. 2019 Nov;104(11):1369-1386. doi: 10.1037/apl0000413. Epub 2019 Apr 18.
Drawing upon socioanalytic theory of personality, we hypothesize and test inverted U-shaped relationships between team members' assertiveness and warmth (labeled as the "getting ahead" and "getting along" facets of extraversion) and peers' reactions (i.e., advice seeking by peers and peer liking, respectively) that, in turn, predict members' emergence as informal leaders in self-managed teams. Integrating research on prosocial motivation, we also examine whether prosocially motivated members have more enhanced positive curvilinear influences of assertiveness and warmth on peer reactions. Based on 223 members in 69 student project teams (Study 1) and 337 employees in 79 self-managed work teams (Study 2), we found support for the inverted U-shaped relationships between assertiveness and advice seeking by peers, and between warmth and peer liking. Further, prosocial motivation enhances the inverted U-shaped effect of assertiveness in Study 2 and those effects of warmth in both studies. Advice seeking by peers and peer liking, in turn, were positively related to leadership emergence in both studies. Our findings have important theoretical and practical implications for dispositional and motivational factors that shape peer reactions and facilitate leadership emergence in teams. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
基于社会分析人格理论，我们假设并检验了团队成员的果断性和热情（分别标记为外向性的“进取”和“相处”方面）与同事反应（即同事寻求建议和同事喜欢）之间的倒 U 型关系，而这些关系反过来又预测了成员在自我管理团队中作为非正式领导者的出现。我们整合了关于亲社会动机的研究，还检验了亲社会动机是否会增强果断性和热情对同事反应的积极曲线影响。基于 69 个学生项目团队中的 223 名成员（研究 1）和 79 个自我管理工作团队中的 337 名员工（研究 2），我们发现果断性与同事寻求建议之间以及热情与同事喜欢之间存在倒 U 型关系。此外，亲社会动机增强了研究 2 中果断性的倒 U 型效应，以及这两项研究中热情的效应。反过来，同事寻求建议和同事喜欢与两项研究中的领导能力的出现呈正相关。我们的研究结果对于影响同事反应和促进团队中领导能力出现的性格和动机因素具有重要的理论和实践意义。（PsycINFO 数据库记录（c）2019 APA，保留所有权利）。
