The issue of how relational identity about leader-subordinate affects each other’s behavior is getting attention.
This study took the perspective of social cognitive schema to clarify the dimensions and contents of leader-subordinate
relational identity if we can understand how leader’s identity the relationship between leaders and subordinates, it
will guide leaders to show different leadership behaviors, which will become an essential factor affecting subordinate
attitudes, behaviors, and the quality of subordinate relationships. How subordinate identity the relationship between
leaders and subordinates will also affect how subordinates respond to leaders and show different work attitudes and
behaviors. Therefore, exploring leader-subordinate relational identity as having crucial theoretical value and practical
application contributions. Based on this, the researcher systematically collected and analyzed the relevant research,
aiming to explain the concept of leader-subordinate relational identity, clarify its theory and content, and understand the
current study, measurement, and the extension of the relationship network of this concept, etc. Finally, the implications
of theory, practice, and, limitations, future directions were also discussed. In the hope that more scholars will invest in
the research field of leader-subordinate relational identity.