中国企业CEO的领导行为研究

 

时间：2月27日（周四）上午10:00-12：00
地点：北京大学国家发展研究院朗润园 致福轩
主讲人：宋继文，中国人民大学商学院副教授

 

 

Research on CEO Leadership Behaviors in Chinese Organizations

Time：Feb. 27 (Thursday) 10am -12noon

Location: Zhifuxuan, National School of Development, Peking U.

Speaker: Lynda Jiwen Song, associate professor, Renmin University.

 

 

Abstract:

Professor Song will talk about two papers she recently published in Administrative Science Quarterly and Management and Organization Review on CEO Leadership.

 

Humble Chief Executive Officers’ Connections to Top Management Team Integration and Middle Managers’ Responses

In this article, we examine the concept of humility among chief executive officers (CEOs) and the process through which it is connected to integration in the top management team (TMT) and middle managers’ responses. We develop and validate a comprehensive measure of humility using multiple samples and then test a multilevel model of how CEOs’ humility links to the processes of top and middle managers. Our methodology involves survey data gathered twice from 328 TMT members and 645 middle managers in 63 private companies in China. We find CEO humility to be positively associated with empowering leadership behaviors, which in turn correlates with TMT integration. TMT integration then positively relates to middle managers’ perception of having an empowering organizational climate, which is then associated with their work engagement, affective commitment, and job performance. Findings confirm our hypotheses based on social information processing theory: humble CEOs connect to top and middle managers through collective perceptions of empowerment at both levels. Qualitative data from interviews with 51 CEOs provide additional insight into the meaning of humility among CEOs and differences between those with high and low humility.

A Multilevel Analysis of Middle Manager Performance: The Role of CEO and Top Manager Leadership

We investigate the multilevel interactive effects that CEO leadership behaviors and top-level managers’ support have on middle managers’ performance in China. Our sample consists of 608 middle managers and 140 of their direct supervisors (top managers) from 40 companies. After controlling for middle managers’ demographic variables, hierarchical linear modeling analysis shows that when non-caring, authoritative, or task-oriented CEOs lead the organization, supportive top managers more positively enhance middle manager performance. Contributions to multilevel leader influences and social exchange research are discussed.

 

 

Biography of Lynda Jiwen Song

Lynda Jiwen Song (songjiwen@rbs.org.cn) is an associate professor of organizational behavior at the School of Business, Renmin University of China. She received her PhD in organizational management from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include leadership, employment relationship, creativity, emotional intelligence, and diversity. Her research has appeared in the Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Management and Organization Review, Human Relations, Human Resource Management, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, and Frontiers of Business Research in China.