Andersen Ingvild, Buch Robert, Kuvaas Bård
Department of Leadership and Organizational Behavior, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway.
School of Communication, Leadership and Marketing, Kristiania University College, Oslo, Norway.
Front Psychol. 2020 Jul 8;11:1474. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01474. eCollection 2020.
Leader-member exchange (LMX) research has increasingly relied upon the social exchange theory (SET) as a theoretical foundation, but the dominating way of measuring LMX has not followed this theoretical development (Gottfredson et al., 2020). With the aim of developing a measure that more coherently reflects SET, Kuvaas et al. (2012) conceptualized LMX as two qualitatively different relationships, labeled economic LMX and social LMX. Since the most applied LMX measures are under scrutiny for not being sufficiently grounded in theory (Gottfredson et al., 2020), it may be especially important to expose alternative measures. Therefore, we provide a comprehensive review of the research to date applying a two-dimensional approach to LMX, while also adding to interpretation and suggestions for how we can progress the field even further.
领导成员交换（LMX）研究越来越依赖社会交换理论（SET）作为理论基础，但测量LMX的主流方式并未跟上这一理论发展（戈特弗雷德森等人，2020）。为了开发一种能更连贯地反映社会交换理论的测量方法，库瓦斯等人（2012）将LMX概念化为两种质的不同的关系，分别称为经济LMX和社会LMX。由于最常用的LMX测量方法因理论基础不足而受到审视（戈特弗雷德森等人，2020），展示替代测量方法可能尤为重要。因此，我们对迄今为止采用二维方法研究LMX的文献进行了全面综述，同时还对如何进一步推动该领域发展进行了解释并提出了建议。
