An Introduction to Leader-Member Exchange Theory

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In a comment he added to one of my previous articles, David Burkus suggested that perhaps our use of personal power is the “one ring to rule them all”, except that if the Leader-Member Exchange theory is to believed then even having personal power may not work with all followers.

Leader-Member Exchange theory, or LMX as it’s known, looks at the interaction and relationship between supervisors and their subordinates. LMX suggests that every leader has a unique, individual relationship with each follower and that each of these relationships is different in terms of the quality of [...]

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