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The role of leader emotion management in leader–member exchange and follower outcomes
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The role of leader emotion management in leader–member exchange and follower outcomes

Laura M Little, Janaki Gooty and Michele Williams
The Leadership quarterly, Vol.27(1), pp.85-97
02/2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2015.08.007
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Abstract

In response to growing calls for such research, we develop and test a model of leader behaviors directed at managing followers' negative emotions. These leader interpersonal emotion management strategies (IEMS) are posited to affect followers' organizational citizenship behaviors performed within interpersonal relationships (OCBIs) and job satisfaction via follower perceptions of the quality of the leader–member exchange relationship (LMX). In addition, we posit that some, but not all, leader IEMS promote and strengthen LMX relationships. Results from multisource data in a sample of 163 leader–follower dyads confirmed the majority of the hypothesized direct effects of the leader IEMS and mediating effects of LMX.
Leader–member exchange Interpersonal emotion management Emotion regulation Social exchange theory

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