Why Does the Leadership Attention Driven Lose Efficacy?——A Case Study of Land Acquisition in T County
The linkage between leader-driven attention and subordinate effective execution has often been as-sumed in existing empirical and theoretical research.However,attention does not necessarily translate into exe-cution effectiveness,and the issue of the failure of leadership attention-driving has not received sufficient at-tention from the academic community.This paper,taking the authoritative attribute of leader attention as its starting point,constructs a hierarchical mismatch explanation framework.It selects the land acquisition work in T County as a case study to explore why subordinates exhibit negative responses to leader-driven attention,that is,the internal reasons for the failure of leadership attention drive.The study finds that attention-driving is a bidirectional process involving both the expression of leader attention and effective responses from subordi-nates,with the latter contingent upon the hierarchical alignment of attention structure elements.While projects driven by county leader attention can enhance task salience,they encounter execution obstacles due to the in-ability of the attention structures at the county and township levels to meet the conditions of consistency be-tween leader intent expression and subordinate conceptual cognition,alignment between resource allocation and subordinate action transformation needs,and balance between assessment incentives and subordinate motivation maintenance.Consequently,these projects experience execution hindrance,resulting in superficial execution deviations and a propensity to retreat in the face of challenges.Adopting a"bottom-up"research perspective to examine the utility conditions of leader-driven attention through the lens of subordinate negative responses en-riches the theoretical framework of attention.
Attention AllocationAttention DrivenHierarchical OperationsLand Acquisition for Projects
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