Zeng Hao, Zhao Lijing, Zhao Yixuan
School of Economics and Management, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang, China.
Business School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Front Psychol. 2020 Feb 20;11:62. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00062. eCollection 2020.
Taking charge is an important form of proactive behavior that sustains organizational survival and individual development. Learning how to motivate employees to engage in taking-charge behavior has become one of the hot topics in the field of organizational management. Despite considerable research investigating the factors influencing taking charge, less attention has been paid to leadership-related factors, such as inclusive leadership. Based on the self-determination theory and the social information processing theory, we examined the mediating roles of psychological safety and thriving at work in the relationship between inclusive leadership and taking-charge behavior. We collected data in two stages from 205 pairs of employees and their supervisors at 17 companies in mainland China. Specifically, the results revealed that inclusive leadership promoted employees' taking-charge behavior first through psychological safety and then through thriving at work. The results describe a more detailed mechanism underlying the formation of taking-charge behavior. The results further deepen our understanding of the path from inclusive leadership to employee behavior. These findings have theoretical implications for the taking-charge literature and managerial implications for practitioners.
主动负责是一种重要的积极行为形式，它关乎组织的生存与个人的发展。学习如何激励员工积极主动地承担责任，已成为组织管理领域的热门话题之一。尽管已有大量研究探讨了影响主动负责行为的因素，但对诸如包容性领导等与领导力相关的因素关注较少。基于自我决定理论和社会信息加工理论，我们考察了心理安全和工作繁荣在包容性领导与主动负责行为关系中的中介作用。我们分两个阶段从中国大陆17家公司的205对员工及其上级那里收集了数据。具体而言，研究结果表明，包容性领导首先通过心理安全促进员工的主动负责行为，进而通过工作繁荣来促进。这些结果揭示了主动负责行为形成背后更详细的机制。研究结果进一步加深了我们对从包容性领导到员工行为这一路径的理解。这些发现对主动负责相关文献具有理论意义，对从业者具有管理启示。
