Li Hongting, Li Futian, Ma Junyi, Liu Bo
School of Economics and Management, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan, China.
Shanghai State Owned Assets and State Owned Enterprise Reform and Development Research Center, Shanghai, China.
Front Psychol. 2025 Jan 7;15:1476047. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1476047. eCollection 2024.
How do leaders' responses to the digital era affect new generation employees' affective commitment? As digital leaders have led to new ways of distributing digital resources and building virtual relationships, employees are facing a shift in the way of interaction, which influences their affective response to organizations. This study aims to understand how digital leaders interact with new generation employees to influence changes in employees' affective commitment to organizations. We have developed a chain mediating model and tested it on data collected from 408 new generation employees working in China. Ultimately, we found that digital leadership is associated with more positive changes in new generation employees' affective commitment. Furthermore, both employee empowerment and employee voice behavior mediate the relationship between digital leadership and affective commitment, forming a chain mediation mechanism in this relationship. We conclude with a discussion of theoretical implications and practical applications.
领导者对数字时代的应对如何影响新一代员工的情感承诺？由于数字领导者带来了分配数字资源和建立虚拟关系的新方式，员工正面临互动方式的转变，这影响了他们对组织的情感反应。本研究旨在了解数字领导者如何与新一代员工互动，以影响员工对组织情感承诺的变化。我们构建了一个链式中介模型，并基于对408名在中国工作的新一代员工收集的数据进行了检验。最终，我们发现数字领导力与新一代员工情感承诺的更积极变化相关。此外，员工赋权和员工发声行为在数字领导力与情感承诺之间起中介作用，在这一关系中形成了链式中介机制。我们最后讨论了理论意义和实际应用。
