Perceived leadership behavior and employee confidence in the leader as moderated by job involvement.

Abstract

This study examines the effect of job involvement upon the relationship between perceived leader behaviors and confidence and trust in the leader. A sample of 112 civil service and military engineering employees were subdivided into two groups on the basis of their job involvement scores. The high-jobinvolvement sample tended to have significantly lower correlations between confidence and trust and leadership variables. Implications of the findings are discussed and a direction for future research is suggested.

The Perceptions Of Employment Equity And Black Economic Empowerment As Predictors Of Organisation-Related Commitment

“…Lok and Crawford (1999) found a near zero relationship between education and commitment. A similar finding was obtained by Cohen and Lowenberg (1990); Gould and Werbel (1983); Jones et al (1975); Kanungo (1982) and Rabinowitz et al (1977) who found no relationship between education and commitment.…”

“…Other researchers have found that commitment has been related positively to age (Angle & Perry, 1981;Arnold & Feldman, 1982;Buchanan, 1974;DeCotiis & Summers, 1987;Dornstein & Matalon, 1989;Hrebiniak, 1974;Hrebiniak & Alutto, 1972;Jones, James & Bruni, 1975;Kacmar & Carlson, 1999;Lee, 1971;Lodahl & Kejner, 1965;Lok & Crawford, 1999;Luthans et al, 1987;Mathieu & Zajac, 1990;McKelvey & Sekaran, 1977;Morris & Sherman, 1981;Newton & Keenan, 1983;Rabinowitz, Hall & Goodale, 1977;Saal, 1978Saal, , 1981Schwyart & Smith, 1972;Sekaran & Mowday, 1981;Sheldon, 1971;Staw & Ross, 1977;Steers, 1977;Van Rooyen, 1981;Williams & Hazar, 1986). Lacy et al (1983) and Mathieu and Hamel (1989) have found a negative relationship between age and commitment.…”

The trusted general manager and business unit performance: empirical evidence of a competitive advantage

“…If employees believe their GM will go out of his/her way on their behalf they are more likely to trust the GM, since they perceive that the GM has their best interests at heart. Jones, James, and Bruni, (1975) suggested that trust in a leader is influenced in part by the extent to which the leader's behavior is relevant to the individual's needs and desires. Korsgaard, Schweiger and Sapienza, (1995) found that lead-ers who show consideration towards followers had higher follower trust than those that did not.…”

Concept Redundancy in Organizational Research: The Case of Work Commitment

“…The reliability of the Lodahl and Kejner (1965) measures of job involvement have been evaluated and reported in over 14 studies using parallel forms, test-retest, and internal consistency indices. These assessments reveal reliability estimates ranging from .62 (Jones, James, & Bruni, 1975) to .93 (Hollon & Chesser, 1976). The Lawler and Hall (1970) subscale has demonstrated Cronbach alpha values of .75 (Rabinowitz, Hall, & Goodale, 1977) and .77 (Schmitt, White, Coyle, & Rauschenberger, 1979).…”