A Mechanistic Study on the Influence of Corporate Leaders'Contingent Reward on Employees'Career Commitment
Corporate leaders'contingent reward can affect employees'career commitment,in which employees'psychological contract violation plays a mediating role and employees'power distance plays a moderating role.Based on organizational justice theory,the author analyzed 590 valid questionnaire survey data from the general employees of enterprises in mainland China using hierarchical regression and bootstrap method to empirically test the relationship between contingent reward of enterprise leaders and employees'career commitment on the basis of constructing a moderated mediation model of contingent reward of enterprise leaders affecting employees'career commitment.The test confirms that:corporate leaders'contingent reward has a significant positive effect on employees'career commitment;employees'psychological contract violation has a partially mediating effect;employees'power distance weakens the positive effect of corporate leaders'contingent reward on employees'career commitment,and also weakens the mediating effect of employees'psychological contract violation.This study attempts to introduce relevant variables such as employee psychological contract violation and employee power distance into the empirical test of the model of the relationship between corporate leaders'contingent reward and employees'career commitment,revealing the mechanism of the influence of corporate leaders'contingent reward on employees'career commitment,expanding the boundaries of the application of the theory of organizational justice from the correlation between the level of leader reward and employees'career commitment,and enriching the literature on the internal governance of the company,and the conclusions of the study are helpful in providing theoretical basis for the formulation of scientific and reasonable rewards and penalties in the management of the enterprises,and for the handling of the relationship between the leaders and the staffs of the enterprises.
Career commitmentLeader's contingent rewardPsychological contract violationPower distance