Leader-Member Exchange and Employee Job Performance: Review and Prospect

Abstract

The research of social relationships on employee performance has received increasing attention from scholars, and the relationship between leadership and employee, as a type of employee relationship, have a "double-edged sword" effect on employee performance. Leader-member exchange is a construct proposed by Western scholars from the perspective of vertical pair relationship between leaders and subordinates, which is influenced by factors such as leader characteristics, member characteristics, leader-member congruence, and leader-member exchange relationship, and also has an impact on employees' work behavior and performance.As an important influencing force in the relationship between leader and employee, leadership-membership exchange has gained momentum in recent years. Therefore, this paper systematically compares domestic and international research on the relationship between leader-member exchange and employee performance between 2013 and 2022; the results of these research pointed out that the existing studies mainly conducted the relationship between leader-member exchange and employee job performance from two perspectives of myopicism and ultravisasim that employees are economic or social people; and accordingly summarized the influence mechanism of leader-member exchange on the relationship between employee job performance from three aspects: individual characteristics, organizational characteristics, and cultural characteristics; finally, this paper supports the deficiencies of the existing research and puts forward the future prospects.