Kong Lingnan, Liu Yang, Ding He, Liu Sha, Yu Shunkun
School of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power University, No. 2, Bei Nong Road, Changping District, Beijing 102206, China.
National Engineering Research Center of New Energy Power Generation, North China Electric Power University, No. 2, Bei Nong Road, Changping District, Beijing 102206, China.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2024 Jul 24;14(8):633. doi: 10.3390/bs14080633.
Drawing on conservation of resources theory, this study aims to explore the mediating role of employees' strengths use and the moderating role of employees' ambitions in the relationship between empowering leadership and employees' taking charge behaviors. A total of 333 Chinese employees from various organizations across China (including industries such as manufacturing, IT, and education) completed our survey at two time points, with a two-week lag. We used structural equation modeling and moderated mediation path analysis to test our hypotheses. The research revealed that strengths use partially mediated the relationship between empowering leadership and employees' taking charge behaviors, and ambition positively moderated the relationship between empowering leadership and strengths use, as well as the indirect relationship between empowering leadership and employees' taking charge behaviors through strengths use. It extends the application field of strengths use, providing a new theoretical perspective on behavioral mechanisms for understanding the empowering leadership-employees' taking charge behaviors relationship, and offers valuable strategies for organizations and leaders to promote employees' taking charge behaviors more effectively.
基于资源保存理论，本研究旨在探讨员工优势利用的中介作用以及员工抱负在赋能型领导与员工主动负责行为关系中的调节作用。来自中国各地不同组织（包括制造业、信息技术和教育等行业）的333名中国员工在两个时间点完成了我们的调查，间隔两周。我们使用结构方程模型和调节中介路径分析来检验我们的假设。研究发现，优势利用部分中介了赋能型领导与员工主动负责行为之间的关系，抱负正向调节了赋能型领导与优势利用之间的关系，以及赋能型领导通过优势利用与员工主动负责行为之间的间接关系。它扩展了优势利用的应用领域，为理解赋能型领导与员工主动负责行为关系的行为机制提供了新的理论视角，并为组织和领导者更有效地促进员工主动负责行为提供了有价值的策略。
