Disparate Safety Enforcement: Curvilinear Effects, Mechanisms, and Boundary Conditions of Supervisor-Rated Leader-Member Exchange Sara Jansen Perry, NataliaM. Lorinkova, and MelihMadanoglu
Journal of Management, 2021
Overview Across three studies, we integrate relational leadership theory with affective events theory to examine how leaders’ relational quality with their subordinates influences leaders’ safety-enforcement behaviors. In two field studies with different high-risk contexts, we find a curvilinear relationship between supervisor-rated leader/member exchange (SLMX) and safety enforcement. The second study also examines the moderating role of leaders’ commitment to safety and the link between safety enforcement and accidents. These two studies reveal that less committed leaders are likely to monitor safety most closely for low- and high-SLMX subordinates, while mid-SLMX subordinates are most likely to be overlooked. ingof three relational dynamics—trust, consideration, and liking— as mechanisms of the effect of SLMX on safety enforcementWe find a U-shaped relationship similar to that in the field studies between liking and enforcement, while the relationship between enforcement and both distrust and consideration is positive. These efforts represent rare direct tests of the hypothesis that LMX includes differential treatment based on affective relationship cues and elucidate how leaders can foster a safer workplace for all.
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