Manager-Subordinate Control Patterns and Judgments About the Relationship.

The article presents a study which aims to examine relational judgments created by managers and subordinates. The study revealed that managers with high comparative dominance detected less subordinate desire for involvement in decision making and tended to offer poorer ratings on the performance of their subordinates. It showed that the total dominance of managers was negatively associated to the combined decisional involvement and leader-member exchange factor for subordinates. In addition, total dominance discerns itself by regarding the one-across act to be a lower level of control compared to the one-up move, but a higher level of control than a move of one-down.