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Authentic leadership and feedback-seeking behaviour: An examination of the cultural context of mediating processes in China

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  • Qian, Jing
  • Lin, Xiaosong
  • Chen, George Zhen-Xiong

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Despite an increasing number of studies that show a positive relationship between the supportiveness of the feedback source and feedback seeking, little is known about the role that supervisors play in promoting employee feedback-seeking behaviour when they serve as feedback sources. The present article developed a model to fill this void and tested it with data from a sample of 237 supervisor–subordinate dyads. We hypothesized and found that authentic leadership was positively related to feedback-seeking behaviour mediated by both perceived instrumental value and image cost of feedback seeking. The results also demonstrated that employees' individual cultural value of power distance moderated the relationships between authentic leadership and the perceived instrumental value and image cost of feedback seeking.

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  • Qian, Jing & Lin, Xiaosong & Chen, George Zhen-Xiong, 2012. "Authentic leadership and feedback-seeking behaviour: An examination of the cultural context of mediating processes in China," Journal of Management & Organization, Cambridge University Press, vol. 18(3), pages 286-299, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jomorg:v:18:y:2012:i:03:p:286-299_00
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    1. Sherry E. Moss & Meng Song & Sean T. Hannah & Zhen Wang & John J. Sumanth, 2020. "The Duty to Improve Oneself: How Duty Orientation Mediates the Relationship Between Ethical Leadership and Followers’ Feedback-Seeking and Feedback-Avoiding Behavior," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 165(4), pages 615-631, September.
    2. Wei Zhang & Xuejun Wang & Dingnan Xie, 2021. "Evaluating the Impact of Positive Implicit Followership towards Employees’ Feedback-Seeking: Based on the Social Information Processing Perspective," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(23), pages 1-16, December.
    3. Jin Cheng & Kunlin Li & Ting Cao, 2023. "How Transformational Leaders Promote Employees’ Feedback-Seeking Behaviors: The Role of Intrinsic Motivation and Its Boundary Conditions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(22), pages 1-25, November.
    4. Yang Ching Hian & Ying-Leh Ling, 2019. "The Influence of Transformational Leadership towards Employee Feedback Seeking Behaviour," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 3(3), pages 14-22, March.

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