All you need is love: the relationship between agape and work outcomes
International Journal of Organizational Analysis
; 31(4):1061-1080, 2023.
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ABSTRACT
PurposeThe purpose of this paper was to lay the necessary conceptual and empirical groundwork of agape in organizations. Specifically, the authors reviewed literature on agape;advanced formal definition of agape;explained the relationship of agape with related variables;developed a scale to measure agape and provided evidence of its reliability and construct validity;showed how agape uniquely predicted employee outcomes beyond transformational leadership;and showed how agape compensated for the lack of transformational leadership.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a survey with 214 working executives who rated their manager on transformational leadership and agape behaviours, and later indicated their own work attitudes. Next, the authors conducted a 20-min between-subjects vignette experiment with 147 business management students who were provided with a description of a supervisor and asked to indicate their work attitudes under the supervisor.FindingsThe authors advanced an operational definition and a scale to measure agape. The findings of this study indicated that agape was a unidimensional construct with high reliability. It had significant positive relationships with followers' job satisfaction, faith and loyalty, team commitment, satisfaction and risk-taking;explained incremental variance in employee outcomes beyond transformational leadership;and compensated for the lack of transformational leadership.Research limitations/implicationsThe present research has the potential to inform recruitment, selection, training, promotion and performance evaluation decisions in organizations.Originality/valueThe authors responded to calls for developing a clear and consistent conceptualization and operationalization of agape for improving scholarly research and leadership training and development.
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International Journal of Organizational Analysis
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2023
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