Paternalistic Leadership and Its Positive Influences in Telecommuting Environment

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10.2991/aebmr.k.210319.122How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Paternalistic leadership, Telecommuting, COVID-19, positive function

Abstract

This paper discusses the positive influences of paternalistic leadership in the compulsory telecommuting environment caused by COVID-19. The pandemic accelerates the development of telecommuting and brings challenges and uncertainties to telecommuting workers. Paternalistic leadership is a widespread management phenomenon in China combining 3 dimensions: authoritarianism, fatherly benevolence, and moral. Since this management model will not be completely changed immediately, it will influence subordinates’ responses, job performances, and psychological feelings. Based on the previous studies, this paper analyzes the functions of paternalistic leadership in China under the compulsory telecommuting situation. This study points out that paternalistic leadership helps solve the main problems of remote commuters, including role recognition and efficiency, psychological isolation, information uncertainty, and resistance to remote work.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ruoyun Jiang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/22
TI  - Paternalistic Leadership and Its Positive Influences in Telecommuting Environment
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Financial Innovation and Economic Development (ICFIED 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 661
EP  - 664
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.210319.122
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.210319.122
ID  - Jiang2021
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