Follower affect linking transformational leadership to job performance: A cross-level analysis
Journal
Academy of Management 2011 Annual Meeting - West Meets East: Enlightening. Balancing. Transcending, AOM 2011
Date Issued
2011
Author(s)
Liang S.-G.
Abstract
Drawing upon affective events theory (Weiss & Cropanzano, 1996) and trait activation theory (Tett & Burnett, 2003), we propose a cross-level model demonstrating how and when transformational leadership influences follower job performance. Using survey data from subordinates and their immediate supervisors in Taiwan's military, we found that follower positive affect at work mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and follower job performance, and mediated the moderated relationship among transformational leadership, susceptibility to emotional contagion, and follower job performance. Further, multilevel moderated mediation analysis revealed that unit-level affective climate moderated the mediated relationship between transformational leadership susceptibility to emotional contagion interaction and follower job performance. We conclude the paper with a discussion of the managerial implications of this study.
Type
conference paper