Chinese employees’ leadership preferences and the relationship with power distance orientation and core self-evaluation

Frontiers of Business Research in China

Table 2 Pairwise comparison of leadership preferences

I	Mean(I)	J	Mean(J)	Mean difference	Significance^a
moral	4.96	benevolent	3.57	1.39^**	.00
		authoritarian	2.45	2.51^**	.00
		transformational	4.39	0.57^**	.00
benevolent	3.57	moral	4.96	−1.39^**	.00
		authoritarian	2.45	1.12^**	.00
		transformational	4.39	−0.82^**	.00
authoritarian	2.45	moral	4.96	−2.51^**	.00
		benevolent	3.57	−1.12^**	.00
		transformational	4.39	−1.94^**	.00
transformational	4.39	moral	4.96	−0.57^**	.00
		benevolent	3.57	0.82^**	.00
		authoritarian	2.45	1.94^**	.00