Integrating expectancy violation theory and social exchange theory, we investigate the role of leader traditionality in augmenting the positive effect of servant leadership in promoting follower reciprocation in three studies. In Study 1, we substantiate in an experiment that individuals indeed expect leaders possessing traditional values to be less likely to engage in servant leadership behaviors compared with leaders who are low in traditionality. Further, we test our full model in an experiment (Study 2) and find support for our hypothesis that the relationship between servant leadership, follower trust in the leader, and subsequent follower organizational citizenship behavior is stronger for leaders higher (vs. lower) in traditional values. Replicating the findings from Study 2, we conduct a field investigation (Study 3) with multiwave and multisource data from a Fortune 500 company and obtain full support for our model. The consistent findings across our studies provide strong support for the role of leader traditionality in altering the social exchange relationship between servant leaders and their followers.

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出乎意料但很好：领导者的传统性激发了追随者对仆人式领导的更大回报

结合预期违背理论和社会交换理论，我们在三项研究中探讨了领导者传统性在增强仆人式领导促进下属互惠的积极作用中的作用。在研究 1 中，我们通过一项实验证实，与传统性较低的领导者相比，个人确实期望拥有传统价值观的领导者不太可能采取仆人式领导行为。此外，我们在实验（研究 2）中测试了我们的完整模型，并为我们的假设找到了支持，即仆人式领导、追随者对领导者的信任以及随后的追随者组织公民行为之间的关系对于领导者的地位越高（相对于地位较低）而言更强。传统价值观。复制研究 2 的结果，我们利用来自财富 500 强公司的多波和多源数据进行了实地调查（研究 3），并获得了对我们模型的全面支持。我们研究的一致结果为领导者传统性在改变仆人式领导者与其追随者之间的社会交换关系中的作用提供了强有力的支持。