权力何以授予：目标理论视角下领导授权行为的形成机制

随着组织所处环境的深刻变化, 如何促进管理者更加积极地表现出授权行为, 成为领导实践和研究的重要议题。现有围绕领导授权行为形成的研究存在理论基础薄弱、“以领导者为中心”倾向突出等不足, 导致其未能很好地解答现实议题。因此, 以目标理论为视角, 并整合性地考察领导者和下属的作用, 以工作团队为研究情境, 对领导授权行为的形成机制进行深入探讨。首先, 通过多案例研究, 探索出促进领导授权行为形成的目标融合类型及其作用过程, 构建出领导授权行为形成机制的理论模型; 其次, 将收集纵向的团队主管下属对子数据, 明确这些目标融合关系对领导授权行为的影响效应; 最后, 将通过进一步数据收集, 对提出的领导授权行为形成机制模型进行整体验证。这将拓宽并加深对领导授权行为形成机制的认识, 从而更好地把握领导授权行为形成的规律, 并有助于企业更好地开展与此相关的管理实践。

The forming mechanism of leader empowering behavior based on goal theory

With the profound changes in the external environment, how to promote leaders’ empowering behavior has been emphasized both practically and academically. However, previous researches lacks systematically theoretical analysis of the formation of leader empowering behavior, and have the tendency of "leader-centered" bias, which lead to their failure to solve the practical issues. Thus, based on goal theory, the present paper investigates the roles of leaders and subordinates comprehensively in the context of teams, and conducts theoretical and empirical researches on the forming mechanism of leader empowering behavior. Firstly, this paper will conduct a multi-case study to explore the different types of goal congruence and their processes that promote leader empowering behavior, aiming to develop a theoretical framework of the forming mechanism of leader empowering behavior. Secondly, this paper will empirically investigate the effects of these goal congruence on leader empowering behavior by collecting the longitudinal and dyadic data. Finally, we will test the forming mechanism of leader empowering behavior comprehensively. Accordingly, this research contributes to the leader empowering behavior research in terms of advancing the understanding on the forming mechanism of leader empowering behavior, and better grasping the forming rules of leader empowering behavior. In addition, this project is also helpful for enterprises to carry out the management practices more accurately.