Study Of The Influence Of Differential Leadership On Employee Pro-Social Rule Breaking Behavior

Pro-social rule breaking attracted much attention in the foreign academia since it has been brought forward.However,as a matter of fact,such behavior is more noteworthy in Chinese society due to different culture backgrounds between China and western society.Based on the leadership-member exchange theory and social information process theory and seeing from the style of leadership that may affect employee behavior,this study investigates the relationship between differential leadership and employee pro-social rule breaking behavior and introduces psychological ownership as a mediating variable to explore how differential leadership affects employee pro-social rule breaking behavior.Besides,power distance has been introduced into the model as a regulating variable,so as to figure out under what kind of condition differential leadership militates employee pro-social rule breaking behavior.This study analyzed 608 valid questionnaires of employees from enterprises and reached following conclusions:(1)differential leadership has significant positive correlation with employee pro-social rule breaking behavior;(2)differential leadership has significant positive correlation with psychological ownership;(3)psychological ownership has significant negative correlation with employee pro-social rule breaking behavior;(4)psychological ownership plays a mediating role between differential leadership and employee pro-social rule breaking behavior;(5)power distance negatively regulates the relationship between psychological ownership and employee pro-social rule breaking behavior and then negatively regulates the mediating function of psychological ownership in the relationship between differential leadership and employee pro-social rule breaking behavior.The study conclusions make up for the deficiency in the study on the fact and mode that differential leadership influences employee pro-social rule breaking behavior,expand the view of relevant research theoretically and practically and puts forward some management suggestions accordingly.