现代企业管理系列讲座第138期

 

 间:2019年7月2日(周二)  13:30-15:00

 点:思源楼424室

主持人:彭贺 副教授

主 题:Effects of CEO Transactional Leadership

主讲嘉宾张震 Zhen Zhang

Bio:

Zhen Zhang is Professor of Management and Dean's Council of 100 Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at the W. P. Carey School of Business. His research focuses on leadership process and leadership development, work teams and groups, biological basis of work behavior, start-ups and entrepreneurship, and advanced research methods. Zhang's work has appeared in leading management journals including Academy of Management Journal, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Leadership Quarterly, and has been cited in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and the Globe and Mail.

Abstract:

Transactional leadership refers to leader behaviors that specify goals, reward followers for task completion, and correct followers’ mistakes. In this paper, we draw upon social learning theory to examine a model in which a CEO’s transactional leadership positively predicts a firm’s error aversion culture which, in turn, increases firm performance but decreases firm innovation. Further, CEO gender is hypothesized to serve as a moderator such that women CEOs have stronger relationships. Based on both experimental (Study 1) and field data (Study 2), our results supported the hypotheses and showed, as compared with men CEOs, women CEOs’ transactional leadership has a more positive indirect effect on firm performance but a more negative indirect effect on firm innovation, both via the mediating role of firm error aversion culture. These findings shed new light on CEO leadership and leader gender research by showing how task-oriented CEO behaviors can be a double-edged sword for organizational outcomes.

 

 

企业管理系

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