ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

心理科学进展 ›› 2022, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (4): 922-940.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1042.2022.00922

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公仆型领导的负面效应及其缓冲机制探究

凌茜(), 张正杰, 丘小燕   

  1. 华南师范大学旅游管理学院, 广州 511436
  • 收稿日期:2021-06-28 出版日期:2022-04-15 发布日期:2022-02-22
  • 通讯作者: 凌茜 E-mail:lingqian219@163.com

The negative effects of servant leadership and its buffer mechanism

LING Qian(), ZHANG Zhengjie, QIU Xiaoyan   

  1. School of Tourism Management, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 511436, China
  • Received:2021-06-28 Online:2022-04-15 Published:2022-02-22
  • Contact: LING Qian E-mail:lingqian219@163.com

摘要:

过去, 研究人员普遍认为公仆型领导是一种对员工、团队和组织有积极作用的领导方式, 但新近的研究表明公仆型领导也会引起潜在的负面效应。针对此问题, 首先介绍公仆型领导的概念与研究概况。然后, 分别从领导者自身和下属员工的角度, 基于角色压力、自我控制资源分配、资源保存、内隐追随、领导与成员交换、领导原型等理论, 探究公仆型领导的负面效应及其缓冲机制。最后, 从研究层面、研究方法、研究视角、研究内容等四个方面提出未来研究建议。

关键词: 公仆型领导, 负面效应, 角色压力, 自我损耗, 公民压力

Abstract:

This paper focuses on the detrimental effects of servant leadership on leaders themselves and their subordinates. The paper conducts a literature review on the concept and achievements of servant leadership. This paper explores the detrimental effects of servant leadership on leaders themselves and the mitigating mechanisms using role stress, resource allocation of self-control, and conservation of resources as theoretical bases. We also explore the detrimental effects of servant leadership on subordinates and the mitigating mechanisms based on implicit followership, leader-member exchange, and leadership prototypes theories. Moreover, future research directions regarding research levels, methods, perspectives and contents are discussed. It is our hope that this paper will encourage both researchers and practitioners to understand how and when the detrimental effects of servant leadership on leaders themselves and subordinates occur, and provide theoretical guidance for future empirical research on the detrimental effects of servant leadership.

The main contributions of this paper include:

First, compared with a primary focus on the value of servant leadership on employees, teams or organizations, this paper focuses on the detrimental effects of servant leadership on leaders themselves (e.g., leaders’ role stress, ego depletion, job burnout, and negative leadership behavior).

Second, based on conservation of resources theory, this paper comprehensively discusses the mitigating mechanisms on the negative effects of servant leadership on leaders themselves from both organizational and individual levels. This paper first proposes that servant organizational culture may mitigate the negative effects of servant leadership on leaders themselves, that is, when organizational culture embraces servant, servant leaders are more likely to obtain organizational support to help more and broader service objects, and thus are more likely to offset the resource loss resulted from serving others. Therefore, servant organizational culture can alleviate the negative effects of servant leadership on leaders themselves, such as role stress, ego depletion. In addition, this paper firstly proposes the moderation of leaders’ positive psychological capital on the negative effects of servant leadership, that is, leaders’ positive psychological capital helps leaders maintain more positive emotions, recover resilience faster when facing of difficulties, and deal with job stress more effectively. Thus, it can alleviate the effects of servant leadership on leaders’ negative outcomes.

Third, this paper discusses the influence of servant leadership on subordinates’ citizenship pressure based on implicit followership theory and leader-member exchange theory, and proposes the moderation of subordinates’ leadership preference on the relationship between servant leadership and subordinates’ citizenship pressure according to leadership prototypes theory, differing from the extant literature’s restricted focus on the positive effect of servant leadership on subordinates. That is, subordinates’ recognition of servant Leadership may alleviate the negative impact of servant leadership on subordinates’ citizenship pressure.

Fourth, we propose the future research directions from the perspective of dynamism, that is using research methods of dynamic leadership behavior (e.g., trend and variability) to explore the short- and long-term negative effects of servant leadership on subordinates, teams, organizations, and other stakeholders.

Key words: servant leadership, negative effects, role stress, ego depletion, citizenship pressure

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