Work relations as a precursor to a psychological climate for change - The role of work group supervisors and peers

The current study focuses the impact of leadership and teams on employees' psychological climate for change. Integrating streams of research from the change, organizational climate, leader-member exchange (LMX), and group dyn amics literature, the, paper proposes that supervisors and teams will shape employees' climate perceptions as a function of the relationship Quality e mployees experience with these two social units. The impact of the supervis or's and team's personal view of the climate, as well as the dyadic quality -supervisor climate view interaction and team relations Quality-team climat e view interaction were also examined Results support a main effect for LMX team relation qualify, and team climate view on employee psychological cli mate for change. In addition, results revealed a multiplicative effect for LMX and supervisor climate view. Overall, the findings suggest that both ty pes of work relationships employees share may serve as potential mechanisms for transforming employees toward change.