Impacts of role-taking and leader-member relationshipupon team performance

Abstract

Abstract: Focusing on the affective exchange relationship between leaders and members in research teams, this study examines the impact of leader's role-taking capability upon the leader-member exchange relationship and the influencing mechanism of the above two factors on team performance. Paired questionnaire surveys from 150 research teams in 6 Chinese universities are conducted, with returned questionnaires from 97 team leaders and 402 team members. Based on the team-level data, the structural equation modeling method is employed to test the hypotheses. The results show that: Team leader's role-taking and professional respect have significant impacts on affective exchange between leader and members; Team members' morale plays a mediating role between affective exchange and team performance; and the mediating effect of the sense of belonging is insignificant. The above conclusions would benefit our understandings of leader-member exchange from the view of emotional capability of team leaders, which can provide important practical guiding values in improving the managerial skills of research teams.

Key words: role-taking, leader-member exchange relationship, team morale, team performance, research team

CLC Number:

F272.91

Jing Runtian, Hu Siyao. Impacts of role-taking and leader-member relationshipupon team performance[J]. Science Research Management, 2014, 35(2): 62-69.

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