The Dark Side of LMXSC: Investigating High LMXSC Promotes Subordinates’ Shortcuts Behaviors

Xiaoping Gu ()
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Xiaoping Gu: Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, School of Business Administration

A chapter in Proceedings of the 2023 5th International Conference on Economic Management and Cultural Industry (ICEMCI 2023), 2024, pp 166-174 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The relationship between leaders and their employees in organization is important. However, extant research exaggerated its benefits and overlooked its dark side. Drawing upon attribution theory, we challenge this consensus by identifying that downward social comparisons of leader-member exchange (i.e., leader-member exchange social comparisons; LMXSC) can also lead to shortcuts behaviors. We identify that, in subordinates with high self-serving attribution of LMXSC, LMXSC triggers psychological entitlement, which in turn motivates subordinate shortcuts behaviors. We found support for our hypotheses across a three-wave time lagged study.

Keywords: leader-member exchange social comparison (LMXSC); self-serving attribution; psychological entitlement; shortcuts behaviors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-368-9_20

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