title: Collective-efficacy as a mediator of the relationship of leaders' personality traits and team performance: A cross-level analysis.
abstract: The relationship between a leader's personality and his team's performance has been established in organisational research, but the underlying process and mechanism responsible for this effect have not been fully explored. Both the traditional multiple linear regression and the multilevel structural equation model approaches were used in this study to test a proposed mediating model of subordinates' perception of collective efficacy between leader personality and team performance. The results show that the team leader's extraversion and conscientiousness personality traits were related positively to both the team-average (individual) perception of collective efficacy and team performance, and the collective efficacy mediated the relationship of the leader's personality traits and team performance. This study also discusses how Chinese cultural elements play a role in such a mediating model.
authors.affiliation: Key Lab of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; School of Psychology, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China.
authors.forename: Xiaoshan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Mingjie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Na
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Shanshan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jianxin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002681:China; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D012938:Social Perception
keywords: Leader personality; Multilevel structural equation model approach; Subordinates' perception of collective efficacy; Team performance