Can Misfit Be a Motivator of Helping and Voice Behaviors? Role of Leader-Follower Complementary Fit in Helping and Voice Behaviors
- Authors
- Kim, Mihee; Shin, Yuhyung; Gang, Min Cheol
- Issue Date
- 10월-2017
- Publisher
- SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
- Keywords
- Leader-follower fit; complementary fit; prevention focus; promotion focus; transactional leadership; transformational leadership; helping behavior; voice behavior
- Citation
- PSYCHOLOGICAL REPORTS, v.120, no.5, pp.870 - 894
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- SSCI
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- Journal Title
- PSYCHOLOGICAL REPORTS
- Volume
- 120
- Number
- 5
- Start Page
- 870
- End Page
- 894
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/82047
- DOI
- 10.1177/0033294117711131
- ISSN
- 0033-2941
- Abstract
- This study explores the role of leader-follower complementary fit in predicting followers' helping and voice behaviors. We collected survey-based data from 645 employees in 119 South Korean teams and performed cross-level polynomial regression analyses and response surface tests. The cross-level polynomial regression analyses and post hoc analyses generally endorsed complementary fit effects, such that the levels of helping and voice behaviors were higher when promotion-focused followers interacted with less transformational leaders and when less promotion-focused followers interacted with transformational leaders. On the contrary, we detected a supplementary fit effect for prevention focus. More precisely, followers' helping behavior was more pronounced when their prevention focus was similar to the level of transactional leadership than where there was a mismatch between the two. These findings provide a nuanced perspective for understanding the differential roles of complementary and supplementary fit between transformational and transactional leadership and follower regulatory focus in predicting helping and voice behaviors.
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