Organic Leadership—Implicit Followership Interaction: Relations among Trust in Supervisor, Active Followership and OCB

Due to the impact of COVID-19, a large number of employees of organizations around the world have been forced to work remotely from home starting in 2020. As a result, leaders and followers face new communication and interaction challenges. If an enterprise is to be successful in the new wave of economic development, it must embrace the role of employee followers. However, there is currently no relevant research. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to analyze the interaction between organic leadership and implicit followers from the perspective of followers who are working remotely and further analyze their relationship with trust in their supervisor, organizational citizenship behavior, and active followership. Using the method of questionnaire measurement, multigroup analysis and ANCOVA and PLS-SEM analysis found the following. First, difference in leadership styles (IV) and implicit followers (IV) had significant effects on employees’ trust in supervisor (DV), organizational citizenship behavior (DV), and active followers (DV). Secondly, the influence of the leaders’ styles (IV) on employees’ trust in supervisor (DV), organizational citizenship behavior (DV), and active followership (DV) was significantly affected only when IFTs were anti-prototypical traits. Finally, organizational citizenship behavior (Med) had an indirect effect between trust in supervisor (DV) and active followership (DV). This article not only fills the gaps in the literature related to leaders and followers, but also provides analytical evidence and new thinking which will enable companies to propose management strategies more effectively for employees working remotely in the face of the impact of the epidemic

Explore the Buffering Effects of Perceived Hidden Inflation on Survival of Mobile Phone Service Providers in Taiwan

The purpose of this study is to examine the moderating role of perceived hidden inflation on the relationships between service quality, brand trust and brand loyalty. All data collected from the target population are analyzed through two-step structural equation modeling (SEM) and moderated multiple regression (MMR) to examine the hypotheses. 1,050 questionnaires are randomly distributed at 21 telecommunication service stores in Taiwan. Findings indicated that service quality has no direct impact on behavioral loyalty but it has a significant indirect impact on behavioral loyalty through brand trust or attitudinal loyalty. Moreover, findings identify perceived hidden inflation as the moderating role in the service quality–brand trust–brand loyalty chain. Besides the need for empirical confirmation of the hypotheses given, finally, there are several practical implications for service marketers and future research directions for scholars

Relationship between religiosity and marital status among Reform Jewish couples

The current divorce rate in the United States is approximately 50%. The Marital Satisfaction Scale provided a global measure of satisfaction by surveying ten areas of the couple's marriage. Religiosity has been defined and measured. Religious homogamy has been defined as holding similar religious views, while religious heterogamy has been defined as holding dissimilar religious views.Results of psychometric analyses indicated both the Religious Homogamy Questionnaire and the Marital Satisfaction Scale had good estimates of reliability for the sample. Results of exploratory factor analyses indicated both measures had multidimensional structures across sub-samples that were inconsistent with prior construct validation studies. Some significant differences in religiosity and marital satisfaction were found. Religiosity was found to be an explanatory variable of marital satisfaction for the total sample and for Reform Jewish wives, but not among Reform Jewish husbands. "Interpersonal and Social Jewish Relationships" was found to be an explanatory variable of marital satisfaction. Religious heterogamy was not found to be an explanatory variable. Structural equation modeling in future studies may further clarify the complex relationships among sociodemographics, religiosity and marital satisfaction.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Lynn University, 2008.School code: 1381