Examining How Ambidextrous Leadership Relates to Affective Commitment and Workplace Deviance Behavior of Employees: The Moderating Role of Supervisor–Subordinate Exchange Guanxi

Mengying Wu, Rongsong Wang, Peixu He, Christophe Estay and Zubair Akram
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Mengying Wu: Glorious Sun School of Business and Management, Donghua University, Shanghai 20001, China
Rongsong Wang: Glorious Sun School of Business and Management, Donghua University, Shanghai 20001, China
Peixu He: Oriental Enterprise Management Research Center & Research Center of Business Management, Business School, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 362021, China
Christophe Estay: Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department, EM Normandie Business School, 30, rue de Richelieu, 76087 Le Havre CEDEX, France
Zubair Akram: School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 15, 1-18

Abstract: How to regulate employee conduct and engage them in high performance works actively and continuously has always been the important topic for organizations. Based on affective events theory and social exchange theory, a moderated mediating model was constructed with the affective commitment as mediator and the supervisor–subordinate exchange guanxi as moderator. Regression analyses and conditional indirect effects were tested by SPSS and PROCESS with 374 matched supervisor–subordinate pairs. The paper explores the moderated mechanism of supervisor-subordinate guanxi to the chain of “ambidextrous leadership–employee’s affective commitment–workplace deviance behavior.” The results showed that the affective commitment mediated the effect between ambidextrous leadership and employees’ workplace deviance behavior, and supervisor–subordinate exchange guanxi moderated the relationship between ambidextrous leadership and employees’ workplace deviance behavior but also moderated the mediating effect of affective commitment. The results have significances to improve human resource management practices and reduce the workplace deviance behavior of employees.

Keywords: ambidextrous leadership; affective commitment; supervisor-subordinate exchange guanxi; workplace deviance behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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