Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Apr 8;17(7):2544. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17072544.
As a bottom-up leadership style, leader humility has received considerable attention from researchers. Among the abundant studies revealing the positive impact of leader humility on employees' work attitude and behaviors, there is less knowledge on how leader humility influences subordinates' organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and withdrawal behavior. On the basis of the social information processing theory, this study proposed a cross-level mediation model and examined the direct impact of leader humility on subordinates' OCB and withdrawal behavior. We also further explored the underlying psychological mechanism and examined the mediating effect of psychological capital on these relationships. Using a two-wave panel design and 274 employees' questionnaire data, the empirical analysis found that: (1) leader humility was positively related to subordinates' OCB and negatively related to subordinates' withdrawal behavior; (2) leader humility was positively related to subordinates' psychological capital; and (3) psychological capital played a cross-level mediating role in and . Theoretical and practical implications, limitations, and suggestions for future research are also discussed.
作为一种自下而上的领导风格，领导者谦逊已经引起了研究人员的广泛关注。在大量研究揭示领导者谦逊对员工工作态度和行为的积极影响的同时，关于领导者谦逊如何影响下属的组织公民行为（OCB）和离职行为的知识却较少。基于社会信息加工理论，本研究提出了一个跨层次的中介模型，检验了领导者谦逊对下属的 OCB 和离职行为的直接影响。我们还进一步探讨了潜在的心理机制，并检验了心理资本对这些关系的中介作用。通过采用两波问卷调查设计和收集了 274 名员工的数据，实证分析发现：（1）领导者谦逊与下属的 OCB 呈正相关，与下属的离职行为呈负相关；（2）领导者谦逊与下属的心理资本呈正相关；（3）心理资本在 和 之间起到了跨层次的中介作用。本文还讨论了理论和实践意义、局限性以及对未来研究的建议。
