TY - JOUR
T1 - Matchmaking in organizational change
T2 - Does every employee value participatory leadership? An empirical study
AU - Rogiest, Sofie
AU - Segers, Jesse
AU - van Witteloostuijn, Arjen
PY - 2018/3
Y1 - 2018/3
N2 - Although leadership is generally considered an important lever to increase commitment during organizational change, empirical research has yet to unravel many of the underlying mechanisms. In this paper, we propose that the impact of participative leadership on affective commitment to change will be contingent on employees’ orientation toward leadership. In our empirical study in two police organizations, we find evidence that followers’ orientation toward leadership is a useful interacting variable. Participative leadership lowers affective commitment to change for individuals with high dominance orientation. In contrast, participative leadership increases affective commitment to change for employees with high development orientation toward leadership. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.
AB - Although leadership is generally considered an important lever to increase commitment during organizational change, empirical research has yet to unravel many of the underlying mechanisms. In this paper, we propose that the impact of participative leadership on affective commitment to change will be contingent on employees’ orientation toward leadership. In our empirical study in two police organizations, we find evidence that followers’ orientation toward leadership is a useful interacting variable. Participative leadership lowers affective commitment to change for individuals with high dominance orientation. In contrast, participative leadership increases affective commitment to change for employees with high development orientation toward leadership. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.
KW - Affective commitment to change
KW - Followership
KW - Organizational change
KW - Orientation toward leadership
KW - Participative leadership
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U2 - 10.1016/j.scaman.2017.05.003
DO - 10.1016/j.scaman.2017.05.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85034267378
VL - 34
SP - 1
EP - 8
JO - Scandinavian Journal of Management
JF - Scandinavian Journal of Management
SN - 0956-5221
IS - 1
ER -