ISSN 0439-755X
CN 11-1911/B
主办:中国心理学会
   中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

心理学报 ›› 2024, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (5): 612-629.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1041.2024.00612

• 研究报告 • 上一篇    下一篇

为家所困还是弥补缺憾?负面家庭事件对有效领导行为的影响

刘德鹏1, 李珏兴2(), 张生军3, 庞旭宏3, 王政4   

  1. 1山东大学管理学院, 济南 250100
    2云南师范大学经济与管理学院, 昆明 650500
    3上海财经大学商学院, 上海 200433
    4浙江大学管理学院, 杭州 310058
  • 收稿日期:2022-09-02 发布日期:2024-03-06 出版日期:2024-05-25
  • 通讯作者: 李珏兴, E-amil: lijuexing@139.com
  • 基金资助:
    山东省社会科学规划研究项目(23BGLJ03)

Trapped by family or compensated from work? The influence of daily negative family events on daily effective leadership behaviors

LIU Depeng1, LI Juexing2(), ZHANG Shengjun3, PANG Xuhong3, WANG Zheng4   

  1. 1School of Management, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
    2School of Economics and Management, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650500, China
    3School of Business, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, China
    4School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
  • Received:2022-09-02 Online:2024-03-06 Published:2024-05-25

摘要:

现有文献对负面家庭事件在个体内层次如何跨领域影响有效领导行为存在为家所困和弥补缺憾两种不一致的观点。本文引入跨领域领导身份认同理论, 通过两个经验取样法研究发现: 在个体内层次, 领导者经历的负面家庭事件一方面会产生为家所困效应, 通过自我耗竭降低领导身份认同和有效领导行为; 另一方面也会产生弥补缺憾效应, 通过弥补提高领导身份认同和有效领导行为。当领导者具有高外向性人格时, 在个体内层次, 领导者经历的负面家庭事件会提高领导身份认同, 促进有效领导行为。当领导者具有低外向性人格时, 在个体内层次, 领导者经历的负面家庭事件会降低领导身份认同, 减少有效领导行为。研究加深了对负面家庭事件如何影响有效领导行为的理解, 丰富了对外向性人格在领导力中作用的认识, 并拓展了领导身份认同的前因研究。

关键词: 负面家庭事件, 有效领导行为, 基本领导行为, 变革领导行为, 领导身份认同, 外向性人格

Abstract:

Negative family events and experiences have been major social problems in recent years due to the intersection and influence of technical, economic, and epidemic shocks. Negative family events influence leaders’ family domain and also have a cross-domain effect on leadership behaviors at work. However, there are two contradictory views on the relationship between negative family events and effective leadership behaviors. Some scholars claim a negative effect because of the depletion of leaders’ self-control resources, called the “trapped-by- family effect.” Others propose a positive effect owing to cross-domain compensation, called the “compensation effect.”
The inconsistency in existing literature prompts us to reconcile it using the theory of cross-domain leader identity. We argue that the influence of daily negative family events on leader identity and effective leadership behaviors depends on the leaders’ extraversion levels. Specifically, when leaders have higher levels of extraversion, the compensation effect will come into play; that is, daily negative family events will be positively associated with daily effective leadership behaviors by promoting daily leader identity. In contrast, when leaders have lower levels of extraversion, the trapped-by-family effect will play a role; that is, daily negative family events will be negatively associated with daily effective leadership behaviors by reducing daily leader identity.
To capture within-person variance and test our model, we conducted two experience sampling studies of middle managers across 10 consecutive workdays. In Study 1, participants were middle managers from three merchant banks in three cities. Before initiating the daily survey, participants were asked to complete a basic survey containing demographic questions and an extraversion personality inventory. After matching procedures, 461 observations from 67 managers were included in our final sample. Data analysis supported our hypotheses for both initial structure and transformational leadership that are typical effective leadership behaviors in the literature. In Study 2, we collected data from participants from different regions and industries, and the final sample included 307 observations from 42 managers. The data analysis results showed that negative family events did have both a trapped-by-family effect on leader identity and effective leadership behavior through ego-depletion and a compensation effect on leader identity and effective leadership behavior through compensation.
The theoretical contributions of this paper are fourfold. First, we integrate the inconsistent ideas of the relationship between negative family events and effective leadership behavior using the theory of cross-domain leader identity. We find that the levels of leaders’ extraversion play a vital role in deciding whether negative family events will have a trapped-by-family effect or a compensation effect on effective leadership behavior via leader identity. Second, unlike existing empirical studies, our findings suggest that negative family events will not always lead to negative leadership behaviors. At the within-person level, leaders with high levels of extraversion will exhibit more effective leadership behaviors at work after experiencing negative family events. Third, we extend the current research to further explore the effect of personality on leadership behaviors. Prior studies have suggested that extraversion assists leaders in handling the challenges of work, while we find that extraversion will also promote leaders to actively respond to negative family events by engaging in effective leadership behaviors. Fourth, we also contribute to leader identity studies by shifting its antecedents from work domain to family domain and by exploring the interactive effect of personal and situational factors on leader identity. The present study also provides practical guidance for organizations and leaders to cope with the challenge of negative family events and promote its potential positive effects.

Key words: negative family events, effective leadership behavior, initial structure, transformational leadership, leader identity, extraversion

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