Principal speaker
Dr Herman Tse
Abstract: Current leader-member exchange (LMX) research has largely focused on the positive effect of LMX on vertical dyad partners and has overlooked its negative impact on other interdependent relations in which other coworkers are also involved (see Sherony & Green, 2002; Tse, Lam, Lawrence, & Huang 2013). We argue that when Coworker A has a better quality of LMX and thus receives more resources and support from the leader compared to Coworker B, Coworker B may have a negative feeling and reaction toward Coworker A.
The present study examines the negative emotional and behavioural reactions of LMX social comparison (LMXSC) for the interpersonal interactions among different coworkers in workgroups. We tested our hypotheses using data collected from 177 engineers in 640 dyads within 42 R&D project teams in a high-technology company in the PRC. Results of social relations modelling revealed that Coworker A’s LMXSC is negatively related to Coworker B’s anger toward Coworker A when their procedural justice perceptions are high. By contrast, this relationship is positively significant when the procedural justice perceptions are low.
Furthermore, our results also indicated that Coworker B’s anger is a crucial mediator that transmits the interactive effect of Coworker A’s LMXSC and procedural justice perceptions on Coworker B’s harming behavior directed to Coworker A in dyads within workgroups.
Speaker: Dr Herman Tse is a Senior Lecturer in the Griffith Business School, Griffith University. He obtained his PhD from the University of Queensland. His research interests include transformational leadership, relational leadership, emotions in teams, multilevel issues in organisations and Chinese management issues.
Herman is the recipient of 12 international and national research awards. He has been invited to deliver more than 15 workshops on “Multilevel Research”, “Hierarchical Linear Modeling” and “Structural Equation Modeling using Mplus”.
His work has appeared in internationally respected journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Leadership Quarterly, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, the Journal of Business Research, the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, the Group and Organization Management, the Journal of Management Organization, the Leadership and Organization Development Journal and the Australian Journal of Psychology.
Herman has been on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Organizational Behavior, Group and Organization Management and Management Organization Review. He has also been invited to be a regular reviewer for the Academy of Management Journal, and an Assessor for ARC funding proposals.
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