差序格局背后的故事？——LMX差异化基础的内容、结构、测量、动态变化以及多层面影响机制研究

基于先前研究对“领导与下属交换关系差异化(Leader-Member Exchange Differentiation)”影响不一致的实证结果和理论分析，本课题聚焦于讨论领导LMX差异化背后的策略——“领导与下属交换关系差异化的基础（The Basis of Leader-Member Exchange Differentiation）”。本课题推测领导与下属发展差异性的交换关系所依据的标准或基础，与差异化的程度共同决定了LMX差异化的影响效果。基于此，本课题计划系统地研究LMX差异化基础的理论、概念、结构，开发相关的测量工具，并在此基础上以动态研究的视角探讨LMX差异化基础对员工绩效、团队效能及领导心理与行为的影响作用及其动态变化过程，进而提出一个多层次的整合模型。本课题成果将有助于丰富LMX理论，为LMX差异化研究提供了新的研究视角，增进人们对该现象的理解。

To reconcile the contradictory empirical findings and theoretical arguments, this project focuses on the strategy behind LMX differentiation phenomenon – “the basis of LMX differentiation”. This project suggests that the basis of leader-member exchange differentiation and the strength of leader-member exchange differentiation interact to determine the consequence of differentiated treatments. Built on this reasoning, this project, taking a dynamic view, aims to explore the conceptualization, contents, construct, theory of LMX differentiation basis, develop the measure of LMX differentiation basis, and further discuss its influence on employees’ performance, group effectiveness, and leaders’ psychology and behaviors as well as its dynamic change process. By doing so, we attempt to build an integrated model to better understand the phenomenon of LMX differentiation basis. This project will extend LMX theory, provide a new perspective for LMX differentiation research and deepen our understanding on LMX differentiation phenomenon.