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【文章标题】When leaders are forced to stay: The indirect effects of leaders' reluctant staying on subordinates' performance

【文章摘要】Leaders who desire to leave the current organization are sometimes forced to stay. The leadership behaviors of these leaders are underexplored in the current literature. Building on proximal withdrawal states theory, this study examines two pathways through which leaders' reluctant staying mindset (i.e., desire but are unable to quit) relates to their subordinates' task performance and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB). One pathway proposes increased laissez-faire leadership behaviors due to leaders' lower intrinsic motivation; the second pathway proposes increased delegation behaviors due to leaders' higher extrinsic motivation. Using three-wave data collected from 100 leaders and 313 subordinates, we found that leaders' reluctant staying was indirectly and negatively associated with subordinates' task performance and OCB through leaders' lower perceptions of task significance and higher laissez-faire leadership behaviors. At the same time, leaders' reluctant staying increased their bottom-line mentality and delegation behaviors, but the indirect effects on subordinates' performance outcomes were not significant. We discuss the implications of our findings for theory, practices, and future research regarding how to manage leaders who stay reluctantly in the organization.

【关键词】bottom-line mentality, delegation, laissez-faire leadership, perceived task significance, performance, reluctant staying

【文章作者】Xueqing Fan、Danni Wang、Fuxi Wang、Maria L. Kraimer

【作者单位】上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院、Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey、金沙总站6155、School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

【发表期刊】Journal of Organizational Behavior，网络版于2023年8月18日上线

【基金资助】This study was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 72002035 and No. 72002017), the Humanity and Social Science Youth Foundation of Ministry of Education of China (20YJC630234) and the Planning Project of Philosophy and Social Science of Guangdong Province of China (GD19CGL11).

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