The role of group-level perceived organizational support and collective affective commitment in the relationship between leaders’ directive and supportive behaviors and group-level helping behaviors
ISSN: 0048-3486
Article publication date: 22 November 2018
Issue publication date: 7 March 2019
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine a model linking directive and supportive leadership to group-level helping behaviors via group-level perceived organizational support (GPOS) and collective affective commitment (CAC).
Design/methodology/approach
Using data from 115 business units of an international retailer, the authors tested and compared the theoretical model against more parsimonious solutions using χ² difference tests. The hypotheses were examined within a structural model.
Findings
The results show that GPOS acts as a mediator in the relationship between leadership behaviors and CAC and between directive leadership and group-level helping behaviors. Supportive leadership is directly related to CAC and group-level helping behaviors.
Research limitations/implications
Implications of these findings for research on supportive and directive leadership are discussed.
Originality/value
This paper proposed a model that examined intermediate linkages between directive and supportive leadership and group-level helping behaviors. In doing so, the authors provide a preliminary response to recent calls for examination of mediators of task-oriented and relations-oriented leadership effects (Judge et al., 2004).
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Citation
Tremblay, M., Gaudet, M.-C. and Vandenberghe, C. (2019), "The role of group-level perceived organizational support and collective affective commitment in the relationship between leaders’ directive and supportive behaviors and group-level helping behaviors", Personnel Review, Vol. 48 No. 2, pp. 417-437. https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-06-2017-0172
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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