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Leader-member exchange

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In management & leadership, leader-member exchange means: A leadership perspective focusing on the quality of the relationship between a leader and each individual team member.

In Turkish: lider-üye etkileşimi

How it is used

Often shortened to LMX; use when relationships differ within a team rather than assuming one uniform leadership experience.

Example sentences

  1. Leader-member exchange helped explain why two colleagues experienced the same manager very differently.

    The unit of analysis is each leader-follower relationship.

  2. The study linked leader-member exchange to differences in access to advice and developmental tasks.

    Relationship quality can shape the opportunities available to individual members.

Common collocations

  • leader-member exchange theory
  • quality of leader-member exchange
  • direct reportAn employee whose immediate manager is a particular person, with no other manager in between; the people a manager is directly responsible for.
  • leadership styleThe typical way a person leads others, including how they make decisions, give instructions, share information and involve their team.

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