Peng Chuanyu, Liang Yan, Yuan Guoping, Xie Mei, Mao Yanhui, Harmat László, Bonaiuto Flavia
School of Public Administration, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031 China.
Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, 00185 Italy.
Curr Psychol. 2022 Dec 22:1-16. doi: 10.1007/s12144-022-04138-z.
Through the lens of social identity theory, this work aims to investigate the impact of servant leadership on employee resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic and to explore their underlying mechanisms through two types of social identity: organizational identification and professional identity. To test our hypotheses, an online survey was conducted via a large number of 703 employees working in public organizations in southwest China. Results yielded from the structural equation modeling analysis via AMOS (24.0) indicated that the effect of servant leadership on employee resilience was fully mediated by organizational identification and professional identity, respectively. Besides, the association between servant leadership and employee resilience was sequentially mediated from organizational identification to professional identity, and from professional identity to organizational identification. This study provides the first evidence of the predictive effect of servant leadership on employee resilience through organizational identification and professional identity, highlighting the significance of social identity for building and maintaining employees' resilience in coping with challenges posed by COVID-19.
通过社会认同理论的视角，本研究旨在调查在新冠疫情期间仆人式领导对员工复原力的影响，并通过两种社会认同类型，即组织认同和职业认同，来探究其潜在机制。为了检验我们的假设，通过对中国西南部公共组织中的703名员工进行了一项在线调查。通过AMOS（24.0）进行的结构方程模型分析得出的结果表明，仆人式领导对员工复原力的影响分别完全由组织认同和职业认同所中介。此外，仆人式领导与员工复原力之间的关联是从组织认同到职业认同，再从职业认同到组织认同依次中介的。本研究首次证明了仆人式领导通过组织认同和职业认同对员工复原力的预测作用，凸显了社会认同对于构建和维持员工应对新冠疫情带来的挑战的复原力的重要性。
