Seminar (Dept. of Organization and Human Resources)

Theme：Relative Servant Leadership, Group-Mean Servant Leadership, and OCB: A Social Comparison Perspective

Speaker：Zijun Cai (Business School, Beijing Normal University)

Time：2021-11-17 14:00

Address：Tencent Meeting、Room 1008, Mingde Business Building

Language：Chinese/English

Venue: Room 1008, Mingde Business Building

Tencent Meeting https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/daf3aAsafC1f 

Meeting ID：238 661 226

Password：1117

ABSTRACT：

Prior research on the relationship between servant leadership and subordinates’ organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) has not clarified the effects of individual-level relative servant leadership and group-mean servant leadership. Taking a social comparison perspective, we hypothesize that relative servant leadership is related to OCB via psychological entitlement and leader-member exchange social comparison (LMXSC), and the indirect effects are moderated by group-mean servant leadership. Results from two time-lagged multi-source studies show that relative servant leadership is negatively related to OCB via psychological entitlement, but only when group-mean servant leadership is low; relative servant leadership is also positively related to OCB via LMXSC, and this positive indirect effect is stronger when group-mean servant leadership is low. Theoretical implications for servant leadership theory and related literature are discussed.