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  • Professionals' supervisor-subordinate relationships, autonomy and commitment in Australia: a leader-member exchange theory perspective

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    Farr-Wharton, Rod
    Brunetto, Yvonne
    Shacklock, Kate
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    Shacklock, Kate H.
    Year published
    2011
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    This paper used Leader Member Exchange Theory (LMX) as a lens for comparing the impact of the supervisor-subordinate relationship on two types of professionals' perceptions of autonomy and in turn, upon their affective commitment. The reason for examining autonomy is because a characteristic of being a professional is having autonomy; however, we argued that such perceptions are affected by the quality of the supervisor-subordinate relationship. The findings confirmed this argument, although the trend was stronger for engineers compared with nurses. Using the OLS procedure, the goodness of fit of the model identified that ...
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    This paper used Leader Member Exchange Theory (LMX) as a lens for comparing the impact of the supervisor-subordinate relationship on two types of professionals' perceptions of autonomy and in turn, upon their affective commitment. The reason for examining autonomy is because a characteristic of being a professional is having autonomy; however, we argued that such perceptions are affected by the quality of the supervisor-subordinate relationship. The findings confirmed this argument, although the trend was stronger for engineers compared with nurses. Using the OLS procedure, the goodness of fit of the model identified that supervision and autonomy accounted for approximately a third of the variance of engineers' levels of affective commitment and a fifth of the variance for nurses. That is, the impact of supervision practices was stronger on autonomy and commitment for engineers than for nurses in Australia. Moreover, statistically, the two groups of professionals were similar in their perceptions of the quality of their supervisor-subordinate relationship as well as their perceptions of autonomy, and the qualitative findings supported similar factors impacting upon their perceptions. The only significant difference between the two groups was in their levels of affective commitment. The implications of these results include the need for those managing professionals to consider ways of improving workplace supervisor-subordinate relationships because of the impact upon perceived autonomy as well as commitment to their organisation, and hence the retention of such professionals.
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    Journal Title
    International Journal of Human Resource Management
    Volume
    22
    Issue
    17
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2011.599681
    Copyright Statement
    © 2011 Routledge. This is an electronic version of an article published in International Journal of Human Resource Management, Volume 22, Issue 17, 2011, pages 3496-3512. International Journal of Human Resource Management is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com with the open URL of your article.
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    Human Resources Management
    Business and Management
    Marketing
    Policy and Administration
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/41840
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