Yönetici-çalışan arasındaki kurgu düzeyi benzerliği ve yönetici-üye etkileşim kalitesi

Since its launch almost four decades ago, Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) theory has become the foremost leadership theory and sparked extensive research interest in organizational behavior inquiry. Motivated to address the recent calls on furthering the understanding of antecedents of leader-member exchange (LMX) quality, this dissertation aimed to investigate the role of a novel and germane factor, leader and follower similarity in construal level in determining the LMX quality. Specifically, it was hypothesized that dyadic similarity in construal level, that is compatibility between dyadic parties to mentally represent things either abstractly or concretely, would contribute positively to LMX quality. In order to test the hypothesis, three studies were conducted. The first experimental study examined whether participants, assigned leader roles, preferred followers whose construal level similar to their own (N = 74). Results revealed that leaders did not show a tendency to prefer a follower with construal level similar to their own over a follower with different construal level than their own. The second qualitative study, included adaptation of work-based construal level scale by Reyt and Wiesenfeld (2015). For this purpose, 31 interviews were conducted with people working in financial affairs departments of various organizations and a work-based construal level scale consisting 16 work activities was formed. The third quantitative study included surveying leader and follower dyads working in financial affairs departments. HLM analysis of 245 matched dyads revealed that dyads with similar work-based construal levels had greater LMX quality. Keywords: Construal Level Theory, LMX, Construal Level Similarity, Leader-Follower Similarity, Cognitive Similarity