Chinese Management Studies: Volume 6 Issue 2

Exploring relationship between authority leadership and organizational citizenship behavior in China: The role of collectivism

Ning Hongyu, Zhou Mingjian, Lu Qiang, Wen Liqun

Authority leadership (AL) is one of the most distinctive dimensions of paternalistic leadership (PL), and it is recognized that PL is the most common leader behavior in the…

Balanced leadership: perspectives, principles and practices

Yenming Zhang, Suan Fong Foo

Balanced leadership is attracting increasing attention from academia and practitioners. In this rapidly changing world, maintaining balance while moving ahead is becoming a…

Abusive supervision and LMX: Leaders' emotional intelligence as antecedent variable and trust as consequence variable

Ding Xiaqi, Tian Kun, Yang Chongsen, Gong Sufang

The purpose of this paper is to explore how leaders' emotional intelligence (EI) influences subordinates' trust and to examine the roles played in the process by abusive…

A Chinese perspective on the content and structure of destructive leadership

Hong Lu, Wenquan Ling, Yuju Wu, Yi Liu

The purpose of this paper is to explore the fundamental content and structure of destructive leadership within the Chinese cultural context, through surveys of employees in…

Moral leadership and work performance : Testing the mediating and interaction effects in China

Min Wu

Moral leadership, as an important element of paternalistic leadership, can be traced back to the cultural tradition of Confucianism. High morality has been expected to be…

Occupational commitment and labor relations in firms: an empirical study in China

Ling Yuan, Jian Li

The purpose of this paper is to fill the gap in the existing literature regarding relationships between occupational commitment and labor relations in the Chinese context…

Working pressure does not necessarily undermine self‐determined motivation: The moderating role of social identity

Ting Wang, Quanquan Zheng

Based on self‐determination theory and social identity theory, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of social identity in buffering the effect of working pressure…

Public service motivation and job satisfaction, organizational citizenship behavior: An empirical study based on the sample of employees in Guangzhou public sectors

Xiaogang Cun

The purpose of this paper is to examine the cause‐effect chain between public services motivation (PSM) and consequences variables, which include organizational citizenship…

The ethics of employment relations in China: a meta‐analysis

Yanzhen He, Tingting Cai

The purpose of this paper is to critically evaluate the extant literature on ethics of employment relations in China. Toward that goal, a meta‐analytic approach is employed to…

Cultural differences and applicants' procedural fairness perceptions: A test of a Chinese culture‐based model

Qingjuan Wang, Rick D. Hackett, Xun Cui, Yiming Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to examine Chinese traditionality as a predictor of applicants' procedural fairness perceptions in selection, and both its direct and indirect…

Servant leadership: a preferred style of school leadership in Singapore

Yenming Zhang, Tzu‐Bin Lin, Suan Fong Foo

The concept of “servant leadership” becomes increasingly relevant in organizations while the “authoritative leadership” style continues to be in place as one of the effective…

A leadership landscape for effective human resource management

Yenming Zhang

Transitions in leadership: China and the USA