1. Supervisor’s behavioral complexity: Ineffective in the call center
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León, F. R., Andrés Alberto Burga León, Morales, O., and Burga León, Andrés
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Supervisión de los empleados ,Centros de atención telefónica ,leader behavioral complexity ,Psicología / Psicología organizacional ,Psicología industrial ,Absenteeism (Labor) ,lcsh:Business ,Telemarketing ,Employee monitoring ,absenteeism ,Liderazgo ,Leadership ,competing values framework ,Absentismo laboral ,Vendedores ,Call centers ,Ciencias empresariales y económicas / Administración ,Psychology, industrial ,Sales personnel ,lcsh:HF5001-6182 ,people-oriented leadership - Abstract
Indexado en Scopus An ample repertoire of leadership behaviors available to the manager is expected to guarantee his/her effectiveness transcending situations, but research in the call-center context has identified a specific form of effective supervision: people-oriented leadership. The purpose of this paper is to compare the effectiveness of leader behavioral complexity vis-à-vis people-oriented supervision. 268 employees out of 728 of a Peruvian call center filled in an on-line survey that included, among other questionnaires, the Competing Values Framework Managerial Behavior Instrument in reference to their front-line supervisor. The study analyzed the relationships between supervisory leadership and subordinate turnover intention and absenteeism. Behavioral complexity, like people-oriented leadership, predicted subordinate turnover intention but did not predict subordinate absenteeism, which people-oriented leadership did when other leadership orientations (to change, results, processes) were held constant. Our explanations consider that absenteeism is a concrete behavior and turnover intention an abstract attitude. The findings are consistent with the call-center literature, suggest important boundaries to the concept of manager behavioral complexity, and highlight the need for contingency theories of leadership effectiveness. Revisión por pares
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- 2018