TY  - GEN
A1  - Urbach, Tina
A1  - Fay, Doris
T1  - Leader member exchange in leaders' support for voice
BT  - good relationships matter in situations of power threat
T2  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - While previous research underscores the role of leaders in stimulating employee voice behaviour, comparatively little is known about what affects leaders' support for such constructive but potentially threatening employee behaviours. We introduce leader member exchange quality (LMX) as a central predictor of leaders' support for employees' ideas for constructive change. Apart from a general benefit of high LMX for leaders' idea support, we propose that high LMX is particularly critical to leaders' idea support if the idea voiced by an employee constitutes a power threat to the leader. We investigate leaders' attribution of prosocial and egoistic employee intentions as mediators of these effects. Hypotheses were tested in a quasi-experimental vignette study (N = 160), in which leaders evaluated a simulated employee idea, and a field study (N = 133), in which leaders evaluated an idea that had been voiced to them at work. Results show an indirect effect of LMX on leaders' idea support via attributed prosocial intentions but not via attributed egoistic intentions, and a buffering effect of high LMX on the negative effect of power threat on leaders' idea support. Results differed across studies with regard to the main effect of LMX on idea support.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 842 
KW  - proactive personality
KW  - work
KW  - consequences
KW  - behavior
KW  - performance
KW  - model
KW  - trust
KW  - metaanalysis
KW  - antecedents
KW  - supervisors
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-510904
SN  - 1866-8364
VL  - 70
IS  - 2
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Urbach, Tina
A1  - Fay, Doris
T1  - Leader member exchange in leaders’ support for voice
BT  - good relationships matter in situations of power threat
JF  - Applied psychology : an international review
JF  - Psychologie appliquée
N2  - While previous research underscores the role of leaders in stimulating employee voice behaviour, comparatively little is known about what affects leaders' support for such constructive but potentially threatening employee behaviours. We introduce leader member exchange quality (LMX) as a central predictor of leaders' support for employees' ideas for constructive change. Apart from a general benefit of high LMX for leaders' idea support, we propose that high LMX is particularly critical to leaders' idea support if the idea voiced by an employee constitutes a power threat to the leader. We investigate leaders' attribution of prosocial and egoistic employee intentions as mediators of these effects. Hypotheses were tested in a quasi-experimental vignette study (N = 160), in which leaders evaluated a simulated employee idea, and a field study (N = 133), in which leaders evaluated an idea that had been voiced to them at work. Results show an indirect effect of LMX on leaders' idea support via attributed prosocial intentions but not via attributed egoistic intentions, and a buffering effect of high LMX on the negative effect of power threat on leaders' idea support. Results differed across studies with regard to the main effect of LMX on idea support.
KW  - proactive personality
KW  - antecedents
KW  - behavior
KW  - consequences
KW  - metaanalysis
KW  - model
KW  - performance
KW  - supervisors
KW  - trust
KW  - work
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12245
SN  - 0269-994X
SN  - 1464-0597
VL  - 70
IS  - 2
SP  - 674
EP  - 708
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -