Leader Personality Characteristics and Upward Trust: A Study of Employee-Supervisor Dyads in China

Event Location / Date(s)

Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management/Boston, MA

Event Name / Location

Academy of Management Proceedings

Presentation Date

7-1-2012

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Presenter(s) / Author(s)

Ping Han, Xi'an Jiaotong University
Bahaudin G. Mujtaba, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
David A. Whetten, Brigham Young University
Yan Wei, Xi'an Jiaotong University

ORCID ID

Bahaudin Mujtaba0000-0003-1615-3100

Description

Scholars have researched trust for many decades and almost the entire body of empirical research on how personality traits affect upward trust is based on studies conducted in countries other than China. Taking an inductive approach, we examined the relationship between the leader’s big five personality traits and upward trust with 274 respondents in Chinese culture. The empirical results confirm that Extraversion and Neuroticism have negative influence on upward trust, Agreeableness’ impact is insignificant, Conscientiousness has a positive influence and Openness to experience has a negative impact on affect-based trust. Results suggested that the degree to which the leader’s big five personality traits affect upward trust differs from that of the West.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2012.10623abstract

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NSUWorks Citation

Han, Ping; Mujtaba, Bahaudin G.; Whetten, David A.; and Wei, Yan, "Leader Personality Characteristics and Upward Trust: A Study of Employee-Supervisor Dyads in China" (2012). HCBE Faculty Presentations. 242.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hcbe_facpres/242