AUTHOR=Zhang Honglie , Du Linshen , Jiang Zhou 

TITLE=“Loyalty to organizations” or “loyalty to supervisors”? Research on differential leadership and employee loyalty behavior: A perspective of insiders and outsiders

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 13 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.971624

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.971624

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=Based on social exchange theory and social learning theory, the relationship between differential leadership and employee loyalty was investigated. The results show that differential leadership has a positive effect on employees' organizational loyalty and supervisory loyalty, and the degree of "loyalty to organizations" is generally lower than "loyalty to supervisors"; under differential leadership style, the supervisory loyalty from insiders is much higher than that from outsiders, but the influence and difference of the two groups(insider and outsider) do not have a significant effect on organizational loyalty. The supervisor developmental feedback mediates the relationship between differential leadership and organizational & supervisory loyalty; power distance positively moderates the relationship between supervisor developmental feedback and organizational & supervisory loyalty, and the higher the perceived power distance of employees, the stronger the indirect effect of developmental feedback from supervisors.