Leader-member exchange and reactions to performance appraisal: a scenario-based study

• Autor(a) principal: Kuzhnini, Ariana
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/21892
• topic: LMX quality; LMX differentiation; Reactions; Performance appraisal; Qualidade de LMX; Diferenciação de LMX; Reações; Avaliação de desempenho

Leader-member exchange (LMX) theory is based on the principle that the leaders’ quality relationship with their employees differs. As addressed in the previous literature, more research should examine the influence of LMX differentiation on employee reactions, which is the phenomenon we are focusing on in this study. Hence, the current research investigates the relationship between LMX quality, LMX differentiation and reactions to performance appraisal. Data were collected for this study by using a scenario-based experimental analysis carried out on employees working in several companies in Croatia, with a total sample of 139 participants. After analysing the data, the results revealed that LMX quality is positively correlated with perceived fairness of the appraisal received and that LMX differentiation does not moderate the relationship between LMX quality and perceived fairness, particularly while controlling for gender. This thesis contains a discussion of the theoretical and practical implications of our findings.