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Authoritarian leadership supervisor support and workers’ compulsory citizenship behavior

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  • Chin-Yi Shu
  • Yun-Haw Chiang
  • Ching-Hua Lu

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Purpose - Drawing on uncertainty management theory, the purpose of this paper is to propose that experiencing the authoritarian leadership (AL) will weaken followers’ self-efficacy, which induces their compulsory citizenship behaviors (CCBs), defined as workers’ unwilling prosocial behaviors in helping colleagues. Design/methodology/approach - Survey/regression: data collected from Taiwanese workers supports the proposal. Findings - The results not only support the proposal but also show that supervisor support will exacerbate the negative effect of AL with workers’ self-efficacy. Further, workers’ political skill will attenuate the above relationship. Originality/value - This study complements scholarly knowledge about how AL, supervisor support, and political skill together influence workers’ self-efficacy, which then induces CCBs. The findings also remind supervisors not to offer support while at the same time demonstrating an AL style.

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  • Chin-Yi Shu & Yun-Haw Chiang & Ching-Hua Lu, 2018. "Authoritarian leadership supervisor support and workers’ compulsory citizenship behavior," International Journal of Manpower, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 39(3), pages 468-485, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:ijmpps:ijm-10-2016-0191
    DOI: 10.1108/IJM-10-2016-0191
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