We theorized and tested the mechanisms by which leader-member exchange (LMX) quality is associated with job performance. The results obtained using 212 employee-supervisor pairs from eight Chinese companies indicated that LMX quality had an indirect and positive relationship with taking charge...

Self-regulation at work is conceived in terms of within-person processes that occur over time. These processes are proposed to occur within a hierarchical framework of negative feedback systems that operate at different levels of abstraction and with different time cycles. Negative feedback...