Leader Benefits: Exploring How Leaders Benefit from LMX

Leader Member Exchange (LMX) theory has emerged as one of the most prominent leadership theories over the last thirty years. Scholars found that subordinates with elevated levels of LMX experience higher degrees of job satisfaction and work motivation, experience lower levels of burnout and turnover intentions, and demonstrate stronger contextual and focal job performance. Yet the work outcomes for supervisors have not been heavily researched. Scholars assume, but have not demonstrated, that supervisors gain cognitive and affective benefits beyond job performance from their relationships with subordinates. These benefits are crucial because they are common to social exchange and differentiate supervisor/subordinate work relationships. Additionally, how supervisors gain these benefits is an important consideration. In this dissertation, I study some of the benefits supervisors receive from LMX relationships with subordinates and examine how those benefits are gained.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Business

Grantor

Management

Year dc:date.available

2014

Author dc:creator

• Muldoon, Jeffrey

• leadership
• LMX
• social exchange

Statement dc:rights

• unrestricted
• Release the entire work immediately for access worldwide.

Identifier

etd-07012014-115252
https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/1021

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.lsu.edu:gradschool_dissertations-2020