基于支配补偿理论,本研究考察领导与下属外向性人格的匹配性对下属工作投入的影响。对743对领导-下属进行配对问卷调查,在两个时间点获取调查数据。多项式回归与响应面分析表明,下属与领导外向性人格差异越大,下属工作投入水平越高。在下属与领导外向性人格存在差异的情形下,"高下属外向性、低领导外向性"组合比"低下属外向性、高领导外向性"组合,下属的工作投入水平更高。在下属与领导外向性人格一致的情形下,下属的工作投入和外向性人格存在倒U型曲线关系。研究证明了在外向性维度上领导和下属是支配互补的关系时,下属的工作投入水平更高。
Work engagement has been recognized as a positive state of employees, which can lead to the increased effectiveness of individuals and organizations. In exploring the antecedents of work engagement, prior empirical studies ignored the effects of person-environment fit. The congruence and incongruence effects of subordinateleader traits have caught researchers' attentions recently. Extraversion is functioned in daily interactions. We tend to examine the effects of subordinate-leader extraversion fit. Base on the dominance complementarity theory, this study examined the effects of the leader-subordinate extraversion congruence and incongruence on subordinate work engagement. A structured questionnaire was employed as the research instrument for this study. It consisted of four sub-scales designed to measure the variables of interest, namely extraversion, work engagement, conscientiousness and value congruence(the last two are control variables). A field army in northwest China sample was collected in the two time points and from two different raters(soldiers and their immediate monitors) in order to lower the common method biases. 743 dyads' information of soldiers and their immediate monitors was valid. Cronbach's alpha coefficients for the above measures were from 0.75 to 0.94, showing acceptable measurement reliabilities. Results of confirmatory factor analysis indicated the discriminate validity of the measurement was also satisfactory. Polynomial regression analysis was employed to explore the effects of congruence and incongruence between leader and subordinate extraversion on subordinate work engagement. Response surface technology was applied to present the results. In line with the hypotheses, results showed that:(1) The more incongruence of subordinate and leader extraversion level, the more work engaged subordinate would be;(2) Under the condition of subordinate and leader extraversion incongruence, the higher level of subordinate extraversion and lower level of leader extraversio