How Does Paternalistic Leadership Enhance Civil Servants’ Public Service Motivation? The Mediating Mechanism of Trust in Leader

IF 2.3 3区管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Administration & Society Pub Date : 2023-08-02 DOI:10.1177/00953997231186994

Qing Huang, Huaxing Liu

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The field of public leadership studies has witnessed limited research on paternalistic leadership (PL) and its impact on civil servants. The present study draws upon a questionnaire survey of 2,064 Chinese civil servants to explore the impact of administrative leaders’ PL styles on civil servants’ public service motivation (PSM) and the mediating mechanism that underlies its effects. When PL is exercised in a benevolent or moral style, it intensifies subordinates’ PSM. But authoritarian behavior, whether used separately, or in combination with another style (as in benevolent-authoritarian, moral-authoritarian or benevolent-moral-authoritarian leadership), showed an insignificant effect on PSM. In addition, trust in leader mediates the relationship between benevolent, moral and AL styles and subordinates’ PSM. Our findings suggest that even in an authoritarian-oriented society such as China, the authoritarian variant of PL is increasingly losing its influence, and moral and benevolent leadership have become more important in modern organizations, and should be the primary leadership strategies employed by government leaders.

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父权制领导如何提高公务员的公共服务动机？领导者信任的中介机制

在公共领导力研究领域，对家长式领导力及其对公务员的影响的研究有限。本研究采用2064名中国公务员的问卷调查，探讨行政领导人的公共服务风格对公务员公共服务动机的影响及其影响的中介机制。当PL以仁慈或道德的方式行使时，它会强化下属的PSM。但威权行为，无论是单独使用，还是与另一种风格结合使用（如仁慈的威权、道德威权或仁慈的道德威权领导），对PSM的影响都不显著。此外，对领导者的信任调节了仁慈、道德和AL风格与下属PSM之间的关系。我们的研究结果表明，即使在中国这样一个以威权为导向的社会中，PL的威权变体也越来越失去影响力，道德和仁慈的领导在现代组织中变得更加重要，应该成为政府领导人使用的主要领导策略。

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Administration & Society PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION-

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期刊介绍： Administration & Society seeks to further the understanding of public and human service organizations, their administrative processes, and their effect on society. The journal publishes empirically oriented research reports and theoretically specific articles that synthesize or contribute to the advancement of understanding and explanation in these fields. Of particular interest are (1) studies that analyze the effects of the introduction of administrative strategies, programs, change interventions, and training; and (2) studies of intergroup, interorganizational, and organization-environment relationships and policy processes.