School of Economics and Business Administration, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, Hubei, China.
The Institute for Sustainable Development, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Mar 28;18(7):3505. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18073505.
As an emerging Chinese indigenous leadership style, paradoxical leadership has received considerable attention from researchers. Many studies have demonstrated the positive impact of paradoxical leadership on employees, teams, and organizations; however, there is less information on how paradoxical leaders influence their own work outcomes. On the basis of self-regulation theory, in this study, we examined the impact of paradoxical leadership on leaders' task performance. In addition, we investigated the mediating effects of job crafting and career resilience on this relationship. Through a survey of 120 leaders and 271 of their immediate followers, our empirical analysis found the following: (1) paradoxical leadership was positively related to leaders' task performance, (2) job crafting mediated the relationship between paradoxical leadership and leaders' task performance, and (3) career resilience positively moderated the relationship between paradoxical leadership and job crafting, and had an indirect effect on task performance through job crafting. Our model offers novel insights into the paradoxical leadership literature and implications for improving leaders' job crafting and task performance.
作为一种新兴的中国本土领导风格，矛盾领导已经引起了研究人员的广泛关注。许多研究表明，矛盾领导对员工、团队和组织有积极的影响；然而，关于矛盾领导者如何影响自己的工作成果的信息却较少。基于自我调节理论，本研究考察了矛盾领导对领导者任务绩效的影响。此外，我们还研究了工作重塑和职业恢复力在这种关系中的中介作用。通过对 120 名领导者及其 271 名直接下属的调查，我们的实证分析发现：（1）矛盾领导与领导者的任务绩效呈正相关；（2）工作重塑在矛盾领导与领导者的任务绩效之间起中介作用；（3）职业恢复力正向调节矛盾领导与工作重塑的关系，并通过工作重塑对任务绩效产生间接影响。我们的模型为矛盾领导文献提供了新的见解，并对提高领导者的工作重塑和任务绩效具有启示意义。
