Paternalistic Leadership: A Review and Agenda for Future Research

By Ekin K. Pellegrini, T. Scandura. 2007

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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When does benevolent leadership lead to creativity? The moderating role of creative role identity and job autonomy (2009, background): “Leaders enact a paternalistic role with fatherly benevolence in traditional Chinese societies (Cheng, Chou, & Farh, 2000; Pellegrini & Scandura, 2008).”
The Mediating Effect of Ethical Climate on the Relationship Between Paternalistic Leadership and Team Identification: A Team-Level Analysis in the Chinese Context (2014, neutral): “…paternalistic leadership has already attracted a great deal of attention (e.g., Westwood 1997; Farh and Cheng 2000; Farh et al. 2008), and could be strongly explained in high power distance and collectivist cultures (e.g., Aycan 2006; Pellegrini and Scandura 2008; Ötken and Cenkci 2012).”
Leadership, creativity and innovation: a meta-analytic review (2020, background): “Authoritarian leaders” demand absolute obedience from followers and, produce a climate of fear and caution (Pellegrini & Scandura, 2008), meaning that followers are less likely to show initiative and proactivity to generate novel approaches to perform their tasks.”
The Impact of Paternalistic Leadership on Ethical Climate: The Moderating Role of Trust in Leader (2011, background): “Paternalistic Leadership Paternalistic leadership can be defined as ‘‘a fatherlike leadership style in which strong authority combined with concern and considerateness’’ (Westwood and Chan, 1992 in Pelligrini and Scandura 2008, p. 567).”
Affective Trust in Chinese Leaders (2014, neutral): “In general, paternalistic leaders take on a father-like role and provide protection and care for their employees’ professional and personal lives in exchange for loyalty and compliance (Pellegrini & Scandura, 2008).”
The loci and mechanisms of leadership: Exploring a more comprehensive view of leadership theory (2011, background): “An emerging research stream that moves away from a traditionalWestern-view of the world is referred to as paternalistic leadership theory (Chen, Eberly, Chiang, Farh, & Cheng, in press; Pellegrini & Scandura, 2008).”
Diabolical dictators or capable commanders? An investigation of the differential effects of autocratic leadership on team performance (2015, background): “…can be both low and high on autocratic leader behavior (see paternalistic leadership for a form of leadership combininghigh levels of both, e.g., Pellegrini & Scandura, 2008) and including this leadership style in our analysis allows us to testwhether we find the expected…”
Paternalistic leadership in family firms: Types and implications for intergenerational succession (2014, background): “Pellegrini and Scandura (2006) proposed that paternalism is similar to but distinct from leader-member exchange (LMX) by suggesting that”