The Hart and Quinn (1998) typology for assessing variations in managerial
roles was used to explore managers' self-reported successful use of influence
tactics with subordinates. Data were obtained from 116 managers using ques- tionnaires completed anonymously. The investigation found that the managers' vision setter role was positively related to the use of the consultation tactic. Managers' motivator role was positively related to the use of ingratiating and inspirational appeals, and negatively related to the use of exchange and coali- tion tactics. Managers' analyzer role was related to the use of pressure and rationality tactics, and negatively related to the use of the coalition tactic. Managers' task master role was positively related to the use of the exchange and inspirational appeals tactics. Implications of these findings for research and practice are discussed. Relationship of Managerial VWbrk Roles to Tactics Used to Influence Subordinates Kevin G. Lamude California State University, San Bernardino Joseph Scudder Indiana University Tnterest in managerial work role activities has grown rapidly in recent J. yeare (Martinko & Gardner, 1990), yet the bulk of research which has been conducted has focused on typologies for classifying work roles rather than the relationship between managerial roles and actual com- munication behavior or behavioral intentions. The present study was undertaken to explore the relationship between self-reported manage- rial work roles and successM infiuence strategies with subordioat^JS. The geBeral importance of this area of research results from the belief that influence abilily is central to being effective in a variety of work roles (Dreher, Dougherty, & Whitely, 1989). Marmger Work Roles The literature on managerial work has changed significantly ia the past decade or so. Prev:iously, it was dominated by single case-oriented accounts of specific companies or biographies of specific leaders that had been subjected to minimal empirical study (Bowditch & Buono, 1985). Early controveisies revolved around the participants' reasons for the observable activities. For instance, Carroll and Ikyior (1968) pointed out that since managerml work is mental, it is not directly observable. Sim- ilarly, the worla of Stewart (1976) and Turner and Lombard (1969) stress the limitations to using managers' descriptions of their jobs to describe managerial work roles. Recent literature have shifted in several directions. Multidimen- sional measures of competing roles not identified in previous frameworks are now more common (Kotter, 1982; Stewart, 1982). In addition, there 163 1 6 4 The Journai of Business Communication 32:2 ApriN995 is more emphasis on cognitive processes, as in Quinn's (1981, 1988) Competing Values concept which suggest that effective manager per- formance requires the simultaneous mastery of seemingly contradictory capabilities. There is also more emphasis on integrating tjT)ologies for describing managerial work activities (Carroll & Gillen, 1987). More recently, Hart and Quinn (1993) proposed a useful integrative way to distinguish managerial work roles. Tbis approach revolves around the Competing Values concept as the organizing framework. Citing empirical support, Quinn and his colleagues (Quinn & Rohrbaugh, 1983; Quinn, Spreitzer, & Hart, 1992) proposed that different value dimen- sions (flexibility to predictability and internal to external focus) under- He the conceptualizations of the four major perspectives of organizational and management effectiveness hterature. For example, the human rela- tions perspective (participation, openness, morale and commitment) emphasizes fiexibility and internal focus. The open system perspective (innovation, adaptation, growth, and resource acquisition) stresses flex- ibihty and external focus. The rational goal perspective (direction, goal clarity, productivity, and accomplishment) emphasizes predictability and external focus. Finally, the internal process perspective (informa- tion management, documentation, and control) stresses predictabihty and internal focus. Evidence suggests that an effective manager may need to perform well on all four conflicting demands (Quinn & Cameron, 1988; Quinn, 1988). An important extension of the Competing Values concept was made by Hart and Quinn (1993), who classified managerial work roles found in the literature into four competing role categories (Vision Setter, Moti- vator, Analyzer, Task Master. See Table 1.) that correspond to Quinn's value framework and examined how these roles are related to perfor- mance. Using Q-type cluster analysis they found the four hypothesized managerial reles could be grouped together on the basis of Quinn's Competing Values framework. In addition, they found that managers who focused on all fourworkroles achieved higher levels of performance. In this study, we extend that type of research to learn how managers effec- tively use different tactics to influence subordinates. Influence Strategies Much of the recent research on managerial infiuence with subordi- nates has focused on factors that condition the tactics that are used (Del- uga, 1988; Harper & Hirokawa, 1988; Lamude, 1993; Lamude, Scudder, & Furno, 1993; Iittlepage, Nixon, & Gibson, 1992; Yukl & Falbe, 1990). This research has emphasized both personal (such as status, leadership, stress, ethnicity and gender) and situational factors (such as direction, objectives, conflict modes, context, and formal structure) while ignoring the potential relevance of specific managerial work activity to influence Managerial Work Roles / Lamude, Scudder 165 Table 1 Definitions of Managerial Boles Vision Setter Manager focuses on creating a sense of identity, mission, aind agendas for organizational members. Motivator Manager employs personal examples, metaphors, anecdotes, ceremony and symbols to emphasize organizational values and create a sense of excitement and challenge for oi^^anizational members. Analyzer Manager is concerned with the critical review of projects and proposals, evaluating decisions, negotiating, and conflict solving. Iksk Master Manager has a strong focus on "hands on" results, knowledge, decision making, and resource options. behavior. Yet, a growing body of literature (Kanter, 1982; Kotter, 1982; fe.vett & Lau, 1983; YuM & Falbe, 1990) has argued that influencing sub- ordinates is an important component of managerial work roles, land the study of managerial roles may provide a more detailed analysis of the influence process. The spedfic influence strategies made available to respondents in the present study were based on Yukl and Falbe's (1990) modification of Kip- nis and Schmidt's (1985) "hawi" and "soft" influence tactics. The fouir "hand" tactics "involve use of authority and position power, and they tend to be used in an impersonal and manipulative way" (JPalhe &, Yukl, 1992, p.644). The "hard" tactics include pressure, upward appeal, exchange, and coalition. In turn, Falbe and Yukl (1992) propose the four "soft" influence tac- tics "involve use of personal power and power sharing" (p. 644). Tb^e "soft" tactics include ingratiating, rationality, inspirational appeals, and con- sultation. Definitions of these tactics are shown in Table 2. Since Hart and Quinn's managerial role typology makes no prediction about influence strategy use, the present study was exploratory^?. How- ever, several prior manager-to-subordinate tactics of influence studies sur est that some speculation is possible. In particular, in a series of stud- ies researchers report that "soft" tactics such as, rationality, inspirational appeal, consultation, ingratiation and less pressure are more success- ful in influencing subordinates' commitment to vrork-related outcomes (Falbe & Yukl, 1992; Yukl & Fadbe, 1990; Yukl & Tracey, 1992). While managers are likely to possess trans-role preferences for "soft" types of tactics for influencing subordinates, several studies and indirect evidence from research on leadership, motivation, conflict manage- ment, and critical thinking skills, suggest that "hard" tactics ai-e more likely than others to be significantly associated with specific manager- ial roles. 166 The Journal of Business Communication 32:2 April 1995 Table 2 Definition of Influence Tactics Rational persuasion Inspirational appeals Consultation Ir^atiation Exchange Coalition tactics Pressure Upward appeals The manager uses logical ai^uments and factual evidence to persuade the tai^et subordinate that a proposal or request is viable and likely to result in the attainment of task objectives. The manager makes a request or proposal that arouses tai^et enthusiasm by appealit^ to the subordinate's values, ideals, and aspirations, or by increasing the subordinate's self-confidence. The manager seeks the subordinate's participation in planning a strategy, activity, or chaise for which tlie subordinate's support and assistance are desired, or the manager is willing to modify a proposal to deal with the subordinate's concerns and su^estions. Tlie manager uses praise, fiattery, friendly behavior, or helpful behavior to get the target subordinate in a good mood or to think favorably of him or her before asking for something. The manager offers an exchange of favour, indicates willingness to reciprocate at a later time, or promises a share of the benefits if the tai^et subordinate helps accomplish a task. The manager seeks the aid of others to persuade tiie tai^et subordinate to do something or uses the support of others as a reason for the target to agree also The mamBger uses demands, threats, firequent checking, or persistent reminders to influence the target subordi- nate to do what he or she wants. The manager seeks to establish the legitimacy of a request by claiming the authority or right to make it or by verify ing that it is consistent with organizational policies, rules, practices, or traditions. Other researchers have considered the impact of task activity on the influence process. For example, task activity has been identified as a source of "hard" infiuence tactic differentiation with subordinates. Kim and Yukl (1989) reported the pressure tactic is used more often for influencing sub- ordinates in work-related task than with peers or superiors. In turn, Lamude, Scudder, and Furno (1993) found coahtion, exchange, rationahty, and pressure tactics were successful in influencing subordinates to per- form work-related task. This is supported by Hart and Quinn (1993) who argued that in order to fulfill the task master role, the manager must be results oriented and make expHcit trade-off decisions. Tb fulfill the role of vision setter, managers must create a collective purpose (Hart & Quinn, 1993). Bennis and Nanus (1985) noted that a Managerial Work Roles / Lamude, Scudder 167 vision articulates an attractive ftiture, and managers should behave in ways that reflect the viisioE. O'Hair and Friedrich (1992) concluded that "if a vision becomes a rigid pattern of behavior instead of an inspii-ational challenge, it may do more harm than good" (p.87). Such writings sug- gest that "soft" tactics are more likely to be significantly associat3d with the vision setter role than "hard" tactics. This finds support from researchers who found inspirational appeals and consultation tactics are used most often as a means to obtain subordinate commitment for new objectives, strategies, and projects (Yukl & Falbe, 1990). The analyzer role involves competing viewpoints, the recognition of commonalities and contrasting viewpoints, and the ability to influence the subordinate to adopt a common point of view (Hart & Quinn, 1993). Because the analyzer manager assumes a Mghly active and control-ori- ented role in communicating decisions, we expect tMs role to be signif- icantly associated with "hard" tactics. TMs is supported by littlepage, Nixon, and Gibson (1993) who provide evidence that the use of ingrati- ating, and two "hard" tactics, coalition and rationality are the most effective in negotiating, solvir^ problems and conflicts. Hart and Quinn (1993) suggest the motivator role helps managers to link employees with enduring oi^anizational values, develop and maintain Mgher levels of perfonmance, and promote their own and employees' emotion and idea expression. Researchers have noted the importance of infiuence behav- ior in undeistanding how managers motivate suboitiinates commit- ment and extra effort (Bass, 1985; Yukl, 1989). DeFleur, Kearney, and Plax (1993) suggest the exercise of doseness, enthusiasm, and MMng behav- iors are generally perceived as eflfective in motivating others. Results from. prior research on downward influence of managers over suboniinates found these motivating behaviors were positively associated with the use of more ingratiating and less exchange tactics (Lamude, et ai., 1993). We would expect, then, that these tactics are more likely to be employed in the role of motivator. Method Sample The present study employed volunteer sampling (O'Hair & Kieps, 1990) in order to generate a sufficient number of participants to produce a power estimate of .90 (Cohen, 1969) for the principle analysis of interest. Our sample consists of 116 volunteer managers (66 males and 50 females) participating in a one day business and management education program sponsored by theNational Institute for Professional Development. TMs program dealt with a variety of topics, including tmning and develop- ment, communication, leadersMp, and recruitment. All managere were required to attend tMs program as part of their compaMes' executive devel- opment training programs. Respondents worked in a variety of organi- zations in the western United States. Jobs ranged from supervisory to ?68 The Journal of Business Communication 32:2 Apn7f995 top level management. The respondents' ages ranged from 27 to 69, with a mean age of 45. All of the respondents had at least a college degree. Procedures One-hundred twenty-seven questionnaires were administered at the program site cafeteria during the lunch break. The self-report ques- tionnaire was composed of measures of managerial roles and influence tactics, and limited demographic information. A cover letter attached to the questionnaire explained the purpose of the study and assured con- fidentiality. Respondents were told that they were taking part in a sur- vey to assess management communication issues. Similar to the procedure of Falbe et al., (1993) respondents were asked to recall a recent conver- sation in which they were successful in influencing a subordinate "to com- mit to a work-related activity" and to describe on a 5-point, agree-disagree scale which items, if any, represented their work role(s) and tactic(s) of downward influence. Commitment was described as when "the employee agrees with the request or decision, is enthusiastic about it, and is likely to exercise initiative and demonstrate unusual effort and persis- tence in order to carry out the request successfully." Participants were asked to complete the questionnaire during lunch and deposit them in abox as they left the cafeteria. If they were unable to complete them imme- diately, they were allowed to place them in a box located at the infor- mation center later in the day. The vast majority of the questionnaires upon which the study results are based were completed at the time of distribution. Measures Managerial roles Managerial roles were measured by the 16 item Manager Role Item scale (Hart & Quinn, 1993). Each of the four managerial roles were assessed by a four-item questionnaire. The alpha coefficients of inter- nal consistency for each subscale were as follows: Vision Setter = .80, Motivator = .82, Analyzer = .83, and Tksk Master = .88 indicating con- sistency within the scales. Influence strategies We assessed 8 sets of influence strategies via Yukl and Falbe's (1990) modification of Kipnis et al's (1980; 1985), Intraorganizational Influence Scale. These included: pressure, upward appeal, exchange, coalition, con- sultation, ingratiation, rational persuasion, and inspirational appeals. This measure is widely used in organizational and management research and has demonstrated acceptable validity and reliability (Yukl & Falbe, 1990; Yukl, Falbe, & Youn, 1993; Yukl & Tracey, 1992). The internal reli- ability coefficient for the present study was .86. Managerial Work Roles / Lamude, Scudder 169 Results The data were analyzed using a series of stepwise regression tech- niques to identify influence tactics that were significantly related to the four managerial work roles. As seen in Tkble 3, there was a different set of predictors for each of the four roles. Vision setter had one signi.ficant predictor. More use of consultation (Beta=.45) was related to the man- ager's vision setter work role. Motivator had four significant predictors. More use of inspirational appeal (Beta=.45) and ingratiating (Beta=.33) tactics and less use of exchange (Beta=-.25) and coalition (Beta.16) tac- tics were related to the manager's motivator role. Aiialyzer had three sig- nificant predictors. More use of pressure (Beta=.56) and rationality CBeta=.25) tactics and less use of the coalition (Beta=-.21) tactic were related to the manager's analyzer role. Finally, task master had two sig- nificant predictors. More use of inspirational appeals (Beta=.25) and exchange (Beta=.47) tactics were related to the manager's task role. The upward appeal tactic failed to exert any appreciable impact on the four work roles. Table 3 Stepwise Multiple Regression of Manager's Tactics on Work Roles Tkctics Pressiire Upward Appeal Exchange Ingratiating Rationality Inspirational Appeal Coalition Consultation Constant RSQ (Adjusted) Viision Setter B Beta _, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1.61 .45 5.813 .19 (8/107d0 Motivator B Beta _ _ -0. 81 - . 25 1.18 .33 _ _ 1.40 .45 -0. 60 -.16 - 6.676 .36 {4/llldf) Analyzer B Beta 1.82 .56 _. _ _ .76 .25 _ ._ -.72 -. 21 _ 4492 .39 (3/112df) Task Master B Beta _ _ 1.65 .47 _ _ _ _ .84 .25 _ _ - 3.558 .27 (2/113dQ Discussion We ejqjiored work roles as an important antecedent factor conditioning managers' perceived effective tactics of influence with subordinates. The major contributions of this study are the demonstration that inter- pretable managerial roles exist and the findings that these work roles are differentially related to influence tactics. 1 7 0 The Journal of Business Communication 32:2 April 1995 In recent years considerable attention has been given to the role of vision setting in management attitudes and ieadersMp skill. The pre- sent results suggest that the consultation tactic and visionary role are positively related TMs is consistent with Bennis and Nanus's (198^ argu- ment that the visions that managers have are based on communicating shared values. TMs association is also consonant with that offered by O'Hair and BHedrich (1992), who suggested that acting on visions often requires managers to remain flexible and to strive to modify and improve their original vision. The present findings indicate that in the role of motivator, managers can obtain more commitment and effort from subordinates by relying less on coalition and exchange tactics and more on use of ingratiating and inspirational appeals tactics. As others have ai^ued, the use of exchange and coalition tactics result in being perceived as impersonal and manipulative, and seldom result in subordinate commitment (Falbe & Yukl, 1992). Results related to the analyzer role were all "hard" tactics and resem- bled those found by other researchers with problem solving managers (Littlepage, et al., 1993). These results might be explained best by Hart and Quiim's (1993) obseirvation that managers focusing on communica- tion to seek information, to shape decisions regarding competing view- points and to maintain control, or for managing superior-subordinate relationsMps, typically ignore behaviors that enhance relationships and participation. Contrary to expectations, we found that the task master role was related to effective use of "hard" and "soft" tactics. The most defensible conclusion is the recent finding that the inspirational appeal tactic is much more effective when used in combination with a "hard" tactic such as exchange (Falbe & Yukl, 1992). These researchers also observed that it may not be appropriate to regard the exchange tactic as a "hard" tactic except when it is used in impersonal and manipulative ways. Future research exploring wMch characteristics are most salient to managers in decid- ing whether the exchange tactic is "hard" or "soft" would be of value. Caution is suggested in the generalization of the present findings. The present study was designed to be exploratory in nature. One primary limitation is tiae feict that the sample was non-random and limited to man- agers who self-selected into the respondent group. In addition, only self- report data were used. WMle a recent review by Spector (1987) found little evidence of common variance among self-report measures of affec- tive and perceptual constructs such as were studied here, some caution is prudent. Common method variance may partly explain some of the results. However, the management and business communication literature for years has postulated the existence of tj^pologies of managerial work and Managerial Work Roles / Lamude, Scudder 171 behavior. The instrument developed by Hart and Quinn (1993) to mea- sure managers' propensity to engage in role behavior was shown to be internally consistent and to differentiate among respondent managers. It is also associated with an array of tactics used to influence subordi- nates. The focus on influence tactics however begs the question of how well the Hart and Quinn framework generalizes to managers across man- agerial functions. Lamude, Scudder, and Furno (1993), for example foxmd perceived differences of downward influence tactics across tech- nical, middle-line, and support managerial functions and influence suc- cess. Belatedly, future research should examine the relationship between man^erial roles and effective upward and horizontal influence attempts. Other researchers have suggested links between use of influence tac- tics and other influence attempt outcome factors such as, unsuccessful, resistance, and compliance (Falbe & Yukl, 1992; Yukl, 1989). Such rela- tionships might be profitable future directions to more fully explore the roles of managerial work activity and influence processes. Although caution is needed in offering guidelines until follow-up research verifies the present results, these findings also suggest inter- vention work can be understood in the context of roles and effective use of "hard" and "soft" tactics with subordinates. NOTE Kevia G. 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