Analyzing the Effects of Formal Position and Leader Legitimacy on Leader-Subordinate Interaction

该项目涉及正式权威和合法性对组织中领导与下属互动的影响的实验测试。 以往关于组织中领导力和合法性的实地和实验研究表明，处于权威地位的个人的合法性会影响与下属互动的性质和质量。然而，我们所知甚少，缺乏合法性的上级如何与他们的下属互动相比，高度合法性的上级，以及如何领导的合法性影响下属的反应，他们的上级或下属的看法，领导的能力和权力。本研究旨在探讨上级正式权威与合法性对组织情境下领导-下属互动的影响。其目标是：1）开发新的措施的合法性的正式领导人; 2）分离的正式权威的合法性的影响;和3）测试理论推导的预测正式权威和领导者的合法性对领导者-下属互动的影响。结果应告知（1）领导的合法性对领导-下属互动的影响，独立于正式权威的影响;（2）之间的关系，一个上级的合法性和下属的看法，上级的能力;（3）合法性如何影响领导-下属的谈话。

This project involves an experimental test of the effects of formal authority and legitimacy on leader-subordinate interaction in organizations. Previous field and experimental studies on leadership and legitimacy in organizations suggest that the legitimacy of individuals in authority positions affects the nature and quality of interaction with their subordinates. However, we know little about how superiors lacking in legitimacy interact with their subordinates compared to highly legitimated superiors, and how a leader's legitimacy affects the subordinates' responses to their superior or the subordinates' perceptions of the leader's competence and power. An experimental study will test the effects of formal authority and legitimacy of the superior on leader-subordinate interaction within an organizational context. The objectives are to: 1) develop new measures of legitimacy of formal leaders; 2) separate the effects of formal authority from those of legitimation; and 3) test theoretically-derived predictions for the effects of formal authority and leader legitimacy on leader-subordinate interaction. Results should inform (1) the effects of leader legitimacy on leader-subordinate interaction independent of the effects of formal authority; (2) the relationship between a superior's legitimacy and the subordinates' perceptions of the superior's competence; (3) how legitimacy affects leader-subordinate conversations.