Team networks and team identification: The role of leader-member exchange

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KeXin Guan
ZhengXue Luo
JiaXi Peng
Zhen Wang
HaiTing Sun
Chun Qiu
Cite this article:  Guan, K., Luo, Z., Peng, J., Wang, Z., Sun, H., & Qiu, C. (2013). Team networks and team identification: The role of leader-member exchange. Social Behavior and Personality: An international journal, 41(7), 1115-1124.


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We examined the relationship among team networks, leader–member exchange (LMX), and team identification in the workplace. Social network theory, social exchange theory, and social identity theory served as references for our theoretical propositions and analyses. We collected data from a sample of 223 teams of military personnel, serving in the artillery in West China. We found that the team networks had a significant effect on team identification. Further, the variance and the mean for LMX in teams interacted in influencing team identification (β =-.893, p < .01). Our findings indicated that creating productive networks in teams would be useful to enhance team identification, the effect of which may be carried on through to building exchange relationships between leader and follower.

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