Seong Jee Young, Yang Inju, Hong Doo-Seung
College of Business and Economics, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea.
RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Front Psychol. 2025 Jul 2;16:1615936. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1615936. eCollection 2025.
This study examines charismatic leadership (CL) and its boundary conditions, focusing on their impact on task performance and providing new insights into a phenomenon that has been largely neglected in leadership literature. It examines how person-group (PG) fit moderates the relationship between CL and task performance through followers' organizational citizenship behavior (OCB).
Data was collected using survey methodology from two different sources (136 employees and their supervisors) at two points in time in a public-sector firm in Korea. Hypotheses were tested using hierarchical linear modeling.
Results showed that CL did not affect task performance via OCB when the employees had a high PG value fit. In contrast, employees' task performance via OCB was positively related to CL when the employees had a high PG demands-abilities (DA) fit. Departing from the dominant conception of leadership and person-environment (PE) fit, we identify the mediating processes between CL and task performance. Thus, we can advance our understanding of CL's effects on task performance by observing the mediating role of OCB. This study also explores the boundary conditions (PG value and DA fit) in the relationship between CL and task performance through OCB. By examining the two-way interaction between CL and PG fit, this study provides a comprehensive analysis of CL and its boundary conditions that influence task performance.
本研究考察了魅力型领导（CL）及其边界条件，重点关注它们对任务绩效的影响，并为领导力文献中基本被忽视的一种现象提供新的见解。它研究了个人与群体（PG）匹配如何通过追随者的组织公民行为（OCB）来调节CL与任务绩效之间的关系。
采用调查方法，在韩国一家公共部门公司的两个时间点从两个不同来源（136名员工及其主管）收集数据。使用分层线性模型对假设进行检验。
结果表明，当员工具有较高的PG值匹配时，CL不会通过OCB影响任务绩效。相反，当员工具有较高的PG需求-能力（DA）匹配时，员工通过OCB实现的任务绩效与CL呈正相关。与领导力和人-环境（PE）匹配的主导概念不同，我们确定了CL与任务绩效之间的中介过程。因此，通过观察OCB的中介作用，我们可以加深对CL对任务绩效影响的理解。本研究还通过OCB探讨了CL与任务绩效关系中的边界条件（PG值和DA匹配）。通过考察CL与PG匹配之间的双向交互作用，本研究对影响任务绩效的CL及其边界条件进行了全面分析。
