He Suchao, Yun Xiaoying
The Business School, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China.
School of Economics and Management, Chuzhou University, Chuzhou 239000, China.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2022 Jul 14;12(7):231. doi: 10.3390/bs12070231.
Paradoxical leadership is a leadership style that combines both employees' individual needs and organizational requirements. The existing literature shows that paradoxical leadership has a positive influence on variables at the individual level, team level and organizational level. It is necessary to further explore the negative impact of paradoxical leadership on the individual level (such as employees' unethical pro-supervisor behavior), the path of influence and situational conditions. Based on social exchange theory, this paper studied the influence of paradoxical leadership on employees' unethical pro-supervisor behavior, and clarified the mediating role of supervisor-subordinate Guanxi and the moderating effect of follower mindfulness. We conducted an empirical analysis on the data of 356 employees collected in two phases, and found that paradoxical leadership exerts a significant positive effect on unethical pro-supervisor behavior; supervisor-subordinate Guanxi has a partial mediating effect on the relationship between paradoxical leadership and unethical pro-supervisor behavior; and follower mindfulness moderates the influence of paradoxical leadership on supervisor-subordinate Guanxi, and moderates the intermediation of supervisor-subordinate Guanxi on the main effect. This paper enriches the existing research on the mechanism of influence of paradoxical leadership and deepens our understanding of boundary conditions in relation to the role of paradoxical leadership.
悖论式领导是一种将员工个人需求与组织要求相结合的领导风格。现有文献表明，悖论式领导对个体层面、团队层面和组织层面的变量都有积极影响。有必要进一步探究悖论式领导在个体层面的负面影响（如员工对上级的不道德偏袒行为）、影响路径及情境条件。基于社会交换理论，本文研究了悖论式领导对员工不道德偏袒上级行为的影响，并阐明了上下级关系的中介作用以及下属正念的调节作用。我们对分两阶段收集的356名员工的数据进行了实证分析，发现悖论式领导对员工不道德偏袒上级行为有显著正向影响；上下级关系在悖论式领导与员工不道德偏袒上级行为之间起部分中介作用；下属正念调节悖论式领导对上下级关系的影响，也调节上下级关系在主效应中的中介作用。本文丰富了现有关于悖论式领导影响机制的研究，加深了我们对悖论式领导作用边界条件的理解。
