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Destructive Leadership, Supervisor Pressure and Compulsory Organization Citizenship Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Leader-Member Exchange

Wu Mengying1,2, Peng Zhenglong1   

  1. 1. School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092;
    2. Department of Management, KEDGE Business School-Bordeaux, Talence Cedex 33600
  • Received:2016-06-12 Online:2018-10-28 Published:2018-10-23

Abstract:

In recent years, negative impacts of destructive leadership in organizations have been increasingly concerned by researchers and management practitioners in the field of organizational behavior, so an urgent need is to study its inherent mechanism through empirical research. Based on the Social Cognitive Theory and Social Exchange Theory, the multiple linear hierarchical regressions, correlation analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and PROCESS program operation are used in SPSS and AMOS environment, which aim at constructing a moderated mediation model of destructive leadership for compulsory organization citizenship behavior. The results show that:destructive leadership positively correlates with compulsory organization citizenship behavior; supervisor pressure fully mediates destructive leadership and compulsory organizational citizenship behavior; leader-member exchange relationship not only significantly moderates the relationships between destructive leadership and compulsory organizational citizenship behavior, destructive leadership and supervisor pressure, as well as supervisor pressures and compulsory organizational citizenship behavior, but it also moderates the mediating effect of supervisor pressures between destructive leadership and compulsory organization citizenship behaviors. The results provide a new idea for organizations to prevent and control the harm of destructive leadership and to reduce the compulsory organizational citizenship behavior.

Key words: destructive leadership, compulsory organization citizenship behaviors, supervisor pressure, leader-member exchange