DOI: 10.36347/sjebm.2018.v05i04.005

Pages: 315-318

Employee performance and leadership behavior are two of the most being discussed topics in organizational context. How to optimize leadership behavior, thus to improve employee performance and organizational performance, this has long been the key question which both scholars and practitioners want to solve from theoretic side and in practice. For a long time, people have focused their attention on leaders’ part. Leaders posses a relatively dominant position in the organizational structure compared to the subordinate. They have bigger power and resources in hand. It is generally believed that leaders have much bigger influence and of much more critical importance in the dynamic relationship between leaders and subordinates. They are the part which plays the active role. But more and more practical phenomenon and the organization management theories suggest that in the subordinate-leaders dynamic structure, subordinate plays an increasingly important role. Factors from the subordinate level are being gradually taken seriously. At present, more and more researches have discussed the influence of subordinates' work performance on leaders' leadership behaviors. The traditional view is that high level subordinate performance is positively correlated with positive leadership behaviors, and low level subordinate performance is related to negative leadership behaviors. Existing research shows that the relationship between the two is far from consistent. In this paper, by analyzing the concept of leadership behaviors and subordinate work performance, and their relationships, we focus on what influence staff performance has on leader leadership behaviors and how it works. Therefore to enhance our understanding of their relationship, and provide new implications for the organization management practices.