How Can Managers of Different Levels Play an Effective Role: The Interaction between Model Effect of Managers and Corporate Culture in Predicting Employees’ Cultural Identity
Abstract Drawing on social learning theory and status theory, this study focused on the influence of the model effect of CEO and direct supervisor on employees’ cultural identity, and further explored the joint impacts of corporate culture and role model on employees’ corporate cultural identity. Using two-wave and multiple-source data from 303 employees and their supervisors, we identified that: (1) the model effect of both CEO and direct supervisor had a positive association with the employees’ corporate cultural identity, and the effect of CEO’s role model on employees’ cultural identity was greater than the model effect of direct superior; (2) the clan culture positively moderated the relationship between the model effect of the CEO and employees’ corporate cultural identity; (3)the hierarchy culture positively moderated the relationship between the model effect of the CEO and employees’ corporate cultural identity, and negatively moderated the relationship between the model effect of the direct supervisor and employees’ corporate cultural identity.
DONG Niannian,WANG Xueli. How Can Managers of Different Levels Play an Effective Role: The Interaction between Model Effect of Managers and Corporate Culture in Predicting Employees’ Cultural Identity [J]. Chinese Journal of Management, 2018, 15(8): 1136-.
