Leader–member social exchange (LMSX): development and validation of a scale

Journal of Organizational Behavior - Tập 28 Số 8 - Trang 979-1003 - 2007
Jeremy B. Bernerth1, Achilles A. Armenakis2, Hubert S. Feild2, William F. Giles2, H. Jack Walker2
1Washington, DC, USA
2Department of Management, College of Business, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA

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AbstractIn the last 10 years, research devoted to the construct of leader–member exchange (LMX) has increasingly relied on the tenets of social exchange as a theoretical foundation to propose and test relationships between supervisor‐subordinate dyads and variables of significant consequence. Despite the theory underpinning such relationships, researchers continue to measure LMX with scales developed to assess vertical dyad linkage (VDL), not social exchange. To address this concern, we investigated the content validity of LMX7 (the most widely cited measure of LMX) and LMX‐MDM (a popular multidimensional measure of LMX). Findings from content validity assessments by 25 LMX experts revealed LMX7 and LMX‐MDM items are not representative of the construct of social exchange. As such, we undertook a series of studies to develop a new scale we label, leader–member social exchange (LMSX). Results indicate LMSX is able to assess different, as well as the same, components of the supervisor–subordinate relationship as previous scales while being more theoretically consistent with the notion of social exchange. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Journal of Organizational Behavior

Tập 28 Số 8

979-1003

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