Paternalism is an emerging concept with significant potential for international leadership research. Paternalistic leaders combine benevolence with authority. Paternalism is a prevalent leadership style in non-Western business organizations. In this article, the authors extend research on paternalism to the Western business context. They compare the attitudes of employees from the United States (N = 215) and India (N = 207) with respect to paternalistic leadership and its correlates. Paternalism had a significant positive effect on job satisfaction in India, but the relationship was not significant in the United States. In both cultural contexts, paternalistic leadership was positively related to leader-member exchange and organizational commitment. Results suggest paternalistic leadership may generalize across cultures. © The Author(s) 2010.
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Pellegrini, E. K., Scandura, T. A., & Jayaraman, V. (2010). Cross-Cultural Generalizability of Paternalistic Leadership: An Expansion of Leader-Member Exchange Theory. Group and Organization Management, 35(4), 391–420. https://doi.org/10.1177/1059601110378456
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