The Influence of Leader Prestige on Subordinates’ Job Attitude and Behavior: mediation and moderation effects

Abstract

Abstract.To explore the problem of leader prestige Chinese is familiar with, an empirical study was conducted. Base on the results of a sample of full-time employees in enterprises, the present study analyzed the effects of leader prestige on subordinates' job attitude and behavior. The study proves that leader prestige can improve leader trust and organization identification of subordinates. Leader prestige can give birth to positive effects on leader trust, and then improve organizational identification of subordinates. Leader prestige has positive effects on job satisfaction and job engagement by the full mediator of organizational identification and leader trust. Leader's power and leader-member exchange can moderate the positive relationship between leader prestige and subordinates' organizational identification, but cannot moderate the relationship between leader prestige and leader trust.

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“…Moreover, while there is a paucity of prior research on the topic, previous findings have identified a relation among leader prestige and various beneficial outcomes, such as supporting leadership opportunities (Cheng, 2020), positively influencing group decisions (van Kleef et al, 2021), and motivating cooperation among colleagues (Henrich et al, 2015). Leader prestige has also been found to improve employee's trust in leader, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction (Case & Maner, 2014;He et al, 2015). Furthermore, following an examination of leader prestige in a hierarchical institution (i.e., the military), Offord et al (2019) found that leaders high in prestige, regardless of rank, were able to disseminate information more efficiently compared to leaders low in prestige, suggesting that colleagues value and accept information coming from a prestigious leader, and behave accordingly.…”