Supervisor Trustworthiness and Subordinates' Willingness to Provide Extra‐Role Efforts1 |
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| Authors: | Laurent M Lapierre |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Management, University of Ottawa;2. 2Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Laurent M. Lapierre, School of Management, University of Ottawa, 136 Jean‐Jacques Lussier Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5. E‐mail: |
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| Abstract: | A laboratory experiment was used to determine the separate and joint effects of behaviors denoting supervisor trustworthiness on subordinate willingness to provide the supervisor with extra‐role efforts. Results indicate that a supervisor's demonstration of benevolence toward the subordinate outweighed the supervisor's work‐relevant ability and his or her benevolence toward the subordinate's peers in positively influencing subordinate willingness to provide the supervisor with extra‐role efforts. Also, benevolence toward the subordinate's peers moderated the effect of benevolence toward the subordinate, whereby benevolence toward the subordinate had a reduced positive effect when the supervisor was not benevolent toward the subordinate's peers. |
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