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Examining How Ambidextrous Leadership Relates to Affective Commitment and Workplace Deviance Behavior of Employees: The Moderating Role of Supervisor–Subordinate Exchange Guanxi

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  • Mengying Wu

    (Glorious Sun School of Business and Management, Donghua University, Shanghai 20001, China)

  • Rongsong Wang

    (Glorious Sun School of Business and Management, Donghua University, Shanghai 20001, China)

  • Peixu He

    (Oriental Enterprise Management Research Center & Research Center of Business Management, Business School, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 362021, China)

  • Christophe Estay

    (Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department, EM Normandie Business School, 30, rue de Richelieu, 76087 Le Havre CEDEX, France)

  • Zubair Akram

    (School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China)

Abstract

How to regulate employee conduct and engage them in high performance works actively and continuously has always been the important topic for organizations. Based on affective events theory and social exchange theory, a moderated mediating model was constructed with the affective commitment as mediator and the supervisor–subordinate exchange guanxi as moderator. Regression analyses and conditional indirect effects were tested by SPSS and PROCESS with 374 matched supervisor–subordinate pairs. The paper explores the moderated mechanism of supervisor-subordinate guanxi to the chain of “ambidextrous leadership–employee’s affective commitment–workplace deviance behavior.” The results showed that the affective commitment mediated the effect between ambidextrous leadership and employees’ workplace deviance behavior, and supervisor–subordinate exchange guanxi moderated the relationship between ambidextrous leadership and employees’ workplace deviance behavior but also moderated the mediating effect of affective commitment. The results have significances to improve human resource management practices and reduce the workplace deviance behavior of employees.

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  • Mengying Wu & Rongsong Wang & Peixu He & Christophe Estay & Zubair Akram, 2020. "Examining How Ambidextrous Leadership Relates to Affective Commitment and Workplace Deviance Behavior of Employees: The Moderating Role of Supervisor–Subordinate Exchange Guanxi," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(15), pages 1-18, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:15:p:5500-:d:391889
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