TY - JOUR T1 - When Is Authoritarian Leadership Less Detrimental? The Role of Leader Capability. AU - Huang,Qiufeng, AU - Zhang,Kaili, AU - Wang,Yanqun, AU - Bodla,Ali Ahmad, AU - Zhu,Duogang, Y1 - 2022/12/30/ PY - 2022/10/30/received PY - 2022/12/18/revised PY - 2022/12/27/accepted PY - 2023/1/8/entrez PY - 2023/1/9/pubmed PY - 2023/1/11/medline KW - affective organizational commitment KW - authoritarian leadership KW - leader capability KW - leader effectiveness evaluations KW - task performance JF - International journal of environmental research and public health JO - Int J Environ Res Public Health VL - 20 IS - 1 N2 - We developed and tested a moderated mediation model of the relationship between authoritarian leadership and employees' task performance as well as their affective organizational commitment. Analyses of multilevel, multisource, and three-wave data from 99 supervisors and 341 subordinates showed that leader effectiveness evaluations mediated the time-lagged relationship of authoritarian leadership with employees' task performance and affective organizational commitment. Moreover, when leader capability is high, it mitigates the negative relationship between AL and employees' outcomes. Furthermore, the leader capability moderates the indirect relationship of authoritarian leadership with employees' task performance and affective organizational commitment via leader effectiveness evaluation. This study contributes to leadership research and extends our understanding of how and under what circumstances AL is less detrimental to employees' workplace outcomes. SN - 1660-4601 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/36613043/When_Is_Authoritarian_Leadership_Less_Detrimental_The_Role_of_Leader_Capability_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -