Does Impression Management Really Help? A Multilevel Testing of the Mediation Role of Impression Management between Personality Traits and Leaderemember Exchange

Liang-Chieh Weng ； Wen-Ching Chang

《Asia Pacific Management Review》 20卷1期 (2015/03) Pp. 2-10

並列摘要

In this present study, we propose a multilevel research framework within which we identify personality traits as the primary source of the positive influence on leader-member exchange (LMX) through the mechanism of impression management behavior. Data are obtained from 23 branches of a large commercial bank in central Taiwan, with the samples collected from both managers and employees forming 228 manager-employee dyads, and thereby avoiding common method variance. Our results reveal that personality traits have significantly positive effects on LMX, with impression management behavior also playing a mediating role between them. Interestingly, we also find that group cohesiveness moderates the relationship between impression management behavior and LMX. Our study includes a discussion of the theoretical and practical implications of our findings.

並列關鍵字

Group cohesiveness ； Hierarchical linear modeling ； Impression management ； Leaderemember exchange ； Personality traits

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