Paternalistic leadership and employee performance: A meta-analysis of Chinese samples

Subjects: Psychology >> Management Psychology submitted time 2021-04-20

刘豆豆 胥彦 李超平

Abstract： Meta-analysis and meta-analytic criterion profile analysis were used to explore the impact of paternalistic leadership on employee performance. Based on 139 studies with 400 effect values (N = 44605) from China, we found that (1) Benevolent leadership and Moral leadership have strong positive correlations with both task performance and organizational citizenship behavior, and strong negative correlations with counterproductive behavior. In contrast, Authoritarian leadership has a significant negative correlation with task performance and organizational citizenship behavior, and a significant positive correlation with counterproductive behavior. (2) Low authoritative leadership profile (high level of benevolent and moral leadership) has the strongest predictive power for task performance and organizational citizenship behavior, and high authoritative leadership profile (low level of benevolent and moral leadership) has the strongest predictive power for counterproductive behavior. (3) Moderator analyses revealed that age produces a meaningful impact on the relationships between some dimensions of paternalistic leadership and performance, and the moderating effect of gender is not significant. The findings revealed the "truth" about the relationship between paternalistic leadership and employee performance in the Chinese context.

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