Boss’s Boss: How Leadership Influence Flows from the Top to the Bottom

主講人 : 黃旭 教授

How do upper-level managers exert leadership influence on lower-level employees? Existing leadership research addresses this question by theorizing a “trickle-down” effect, primarily grounded in social learning theory. This research generally predicts a “like father, like son” effect: effective (or ineffective) top managers are likely to cultivate effective (or ineffective) middle managers, who in turn support (or hinder) lower-level employees. In this seminar, I will present two papers that offer fresh insights into some underexplored mechanisms of these trickle-down effects. In Paper One, we demonstrate that the integrity displayed by upper-level managers can create normative pressure that reduces self-serving behaviors among middle managers, as observed by lower-level employees. In Paper Two, drawing from research on third-party  perception, we show that direct interactions between upper-level leaders and lower-level employees—observed by middle managers—can send powerful signals that mitigate abusive supervision.

主講人簡介：

黃旭教授畢業于香港嶺南大學管理學專業，并在英國蘭卡斯特大學獲取組織行為與分析學文學碩士，在荷蘭瓦赫寧根大學取得組織心理學博士。現任香港浸會大學工商管理學院副院長、管理學講座（首席）教授，并兼任香港浸會大學DBA課程總監和人力資源策略及發展研究中心主任，也是Management and Organization Review顧問主編，Academy of Management Journal和Human Relations的編委成員，及佐丹奴國際的獨立董事。

黃旭教授的研究興趣十分廣泛，包括領導力、權力，員工主動行為及非正常行為，員工幸福感與情緒、跨文化組織心理、以及中國組織當中的管理問題。他已在國際期刊發表了80多篇論文，包括Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of International Business Studies, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology。2024年, 黃教授再次被斯坦福大學評為世界2%最有影響力的科學家之一。