Selfless Leader and Their Selfless Follower: The Trickle-Down Effect of Leader Perceived Fairness

Based on equity theory (Adam, 1965), we proposed a fairness trickle- down model to explain how leaders’ perceived fairness may impact their followers’ prosocial motivation. A time-lagged study from 82 group leaders and 906 subordinates in Mainland China supported our trickle-down model. First, our results indicate that leader perceived fairness had an indirect, positive effect on subordinate prosocial motivation through its negative impact on...