Ding Zhihui, Liu Mingwei, Quan Lei, Wang Huaqiang, Zhang Pengcheng, Liu Wenxing
College of Law and Public Administration, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, China.
School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jan 9;13:1058018. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1058018. eCollection 2022.
Previous researches have emphasized the value of leader narcissism on employees' career success, whereas we still know little about how and when this relationship will materialize. By integrating dramaturgical theory and leader narcissism literatures, we propose a theoretical model to explain the mechanism and boundary of leader narcissism in promoting employees' objective career success (e.g., salary increases and promotions). To test our hypotheses, we carried out a multi-wave research design and collected data from 299 employees in Chinese manufacturing firms. The results of multiple regression analysis showed that leader narcissism motivates employees' ingratiation, which in turn facilitates employees' objective career success, especially when those employees are high in careerist orientation. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.
以往的研究强调了领导者自恋对员工职业成功的价值，然而我们对这种关系如何以及何时会实现仍知之甚少。通过整合拟剧理论和领导者自恋文献，我们提出了一个理论模型来解释领导者自恋在促进员工客观职业成功（如加薪和晋升）方面的机制和边界。为了检验我们的假设，我们进行了多阶段研究设计，并收集了来自中国制造业企业299名员工的数据。多元回归分析结果表明，领导者自恋会激发员工的逢迎行为，进而促进员工的客观职业成功，尤其是当这些员工具有强烈的功利主义倾向时。本文还讨论了研究结果的理论和实践意义。
