What if my coworker builds a better LMX? The roles of envy and coworker pride for the relationships of LMX social comparison with learning and undermining
What if my coworker builds a better LMX? The roles of envy and coworker pride for the relationships of LMX social comparison with learning and undermining
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如果我的同事构建了更好的 LMX 怎么办？
DOI：
10.1002/job.2549
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发表时间：
2021-08-10
影响因子：
6.8
通讯作者：
Lam, Catherine K.
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作者：
Pan, Jingzhou;Zheng, Xiaotong (Janey);Lam, Catherine K.
虽然现存的文献已经证明了与领导者建立更高的领导-成员交换（LMX）关系的好处，但它忽略了LMX较低的员工利用与LMX较高的同事的差异所做的努力。整合社会比较理论和EASI理论，我们认为，较低的LMX社会比较（LMXSC）与积极的（自我提高）和消极的（破坏）行为通过不同的情感机制，和重点员工的比较同事的骄傲的看法起着至关重要的作用，在限定较低的LMXSC的效果。一项时间滞后的现场研究和一项在线实验的结果表明，较低的LMXSC与良性嫉妒和恶意嫉妒都有关联，而良性嫉妒和恶意嫉妒又分别与焦点员工学习和社会破坏上级同事有关。LMXSC通过良性嫉妒对学习行为的负向间接影响在被比较的同事被感知为真实自豪感更高（vs.更低）时更强，而LMXSC通过恶意嫉妒对社会破坏的间接影响在被比较的同事被感知为傲慢自豪感更高（vs.更低）时更强。我们的结论与理论和实践的影响。
Although the extant literature has demonstrated the benefits of building a higher leader-member exchange (LMX) relationship with a leader, it has overlooked the efforts by lower LMX employees to leverage the difference from higher LMX coworkers. Integrating social comparison theory and EASI theory, we contend that lower LMX social comparison (LMXSC) is associated with positive (self-improving) and negative (undermining) behavior via different emotional mechanisms, and that the focal employee’s perceptions of the comparison coworker’s pride play a critical role in qualifying the effects of lower LMXSC. The results from a time-lagged field study and an online experiment reveal that lower LMXSC is associated with both benign and malicious envy, which in turn respectively relate to the focal employee learning and socially undermining the superior coworker. The negative indirect effect of LMXSC on learning behaviors via benign envy is stronger when the coworker compared is perceived to be higher (vs. lower) in authentic pride, whereas the indirect effect of LMXSC on social undermining via malicious envy is stronger when the coworker compared is perceived to be higher (vs. lower) in hubristic pride. We conclude with theoretical and practical implications.