Regarding the development of leadership theory, for long, mostly it starts from the Western point of view. However, owing to the different cultural background perspectives, the leadership in Western society is vividly different from that within Chinese society which is so called Paternalistic Leadership. In Chinese society, the relationship between supervisors and subordinates emphasizes their different roles¡¦ regulations and behaviors¡¦ forecasting, not only their dyadic relationships. Meanwhile, the power distance between supervisors and subordinates is huge. These factors are different from the Western society in which their rights between supervisors and subordinates are equivalent. Subsequently, the Paternalist Leadership has three vital categories, each having subordinate responses which all imply that the Paternalist Leadership is based on the followership of subordinates.
Furthermore, ¡§trust¡¨ is a vital discussed issue in the field of organizational behavior, no matter in sociology, social psychology, marketing theory, etc. Trust relationship between supervisors and subordinates enhances the coordination and efficiency of their jobs and likewise, because people trust each other¡¦s goodwill the cost of monitoring will be decreased. Thus, this study, collecting 194 dyadic data, tries to discuss the employees¡¦ effectiveness while subordinates¡¦ trust in their direct leader¡¦s Paternalistic leadership behaviors.
The findings of this study show that while subordinates trust in their direct leaders, there is no moderate effect in organizational citizenship behaviors and job performance. However, trust in leadership has partial moderate effects on subordinates to supervisors¡¦ satisfaction and turn-over rate, and further, it has stronger effects on subordinates to organizational commitment. In other words, while subordinates trust in their direct leaders, it transforms the subordinate¡¦s attitude in indirect behaviors. If subordinates can trust their direct supervisors, it will influence the attitude of subordinates¡¦ psychological level, and this psychological effect enhances the attitude of organizational identification and commitment. That is, subordinates¡¦ trust in their direct leaders is a vital factor to influence their inner minds.
Finally a concrete brief on the limitations of the study, further research direction in the future and how the study is related to management in the real world is presented.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0825103-230404 |
| Date | 25 August 2003 |
| Creators | Wang, Shine-Yi |
| Contributors | Chin-King Jen, Cheng-Chen Lin, I-heng Chen |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0825103-230404 |
| Rights | withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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