The Effect Of Paternalistic Leadership On Workplace Deviance

With the development of modern society and a market economy continues to boom, companies have been playing more important roles in today’s society. And as the most important intangible asset, talent became an important factor in their development with no doubt. Paternalistic leadership originated from the Confucian culture, and study found it generally exists in the Chinese enterprises. In recent years, with talent competition, working pressure is rapidly increasing, and one of the most important factors leading to work pressure is leadership style. Some researchers have pointed out, different dimensions of paternalistic leadership influence work pressure in different level, and work pressure leads to deviant behavior. In recent years, deviant behavior is more and more serious, with economic threat to the enterprise and harm to the members within it. Therefore, how to reduce and prevent the employee deviant behavior is of great importance whether in management practice and theoretical research. However, the researches between paternalistic leadership and employee deviant behavior are not systematic and comprehensive, especially lack of reliable statistical analysis. For these reasons, this study describes paternalistic leadership, job stress and employee deviant behavior respectively in the literature, using empirical analysis method to explore the relationship among the three. To explore this is of important significance to theory development and management practice.This article comprehensively use literature review, questionnaire and SPSS 19.0 analysis to explore the relationship among them. The results are as follows. Firstly, benevolent and moral leadership make negative influence on workplace deviance, but authoritarian leadership make positive influence; Secondly, benevolent and moral leadership make negative influence on work pressure, but authoritarian leadership make positive influence. Thirdly, work pressure has significant positive influence on workplace deviance. Lastly, paternalistic leadership make influence on workplace deviance partly through work pressure.