Effects of Politics, Emotional Stability, and LMX on Job Dedication

Lars U. Johnson (First Author), Emily M. David (Participant Author), Robert Stewart (Participant Author), Altovise Rogers (Participant Author), L. A. Witt (Participant Author)

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Abstract

Efforts to identify antecedents of job dedication (i.e., being loyal and cooperative) are likely to offer value to managers. The authors examined the combined effects of organizational politics and emotional stability on the relationship between leader-member exchange and job dedication. Results of analyses conducted on 156 private sector workers revealed that leader-member exchange quality yielded high levels of job dedication among all employees except the emotionally unstable working in highly political climates. These results not only reinforce the need to hire emotionally stable workers and keep organizational politics at low levels but also point to the limitations of leader influences on employee contextual performance.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)121-130
JournalJournal of Leadership & Organizational Studies
Volume24
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Corresponding author email

witt@uh.edu

Keywords

  • 5 PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS
  • 5-FACTOR MODEL
  • ADEQUATE TAXONOMY
  • CONTEXTUAL PERFORMANCE
  • LEADER-MEMBER EXCHANGE
  • LMX
  • ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR
  • PERCEPTIONS
  • SCALE POPS
  • TASK-PERFORMANCE
  • WORK BEHAVIORS
  • emotional stability
  • job dedication
  • politics

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  • Scopus
  • SSCI

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