Linking Empowering Leadership and Employee Work Engagement: The Effects of Person-Job Fit, Person-Group Fit, and Proactive Personality

Frontiers in Psychology

Yahua Cai¹  Jinpeng Ma²  Di Cai²  Yan Sun² 

[1] Department of Human Resource Management, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China;School of Management, Shandong University, Jinan, China;

关键词: empowering leadership;    work engagement;    person-job fit;    person-group fit;    proactive personality;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01304

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Based on person-environment fit theory, this study examined the effects of empowering leadership on employee work engagement. We also investigated the mediating mechanism of person-job fit and person-group fit. In addition, we explored employee proactive personality’s moderating role between empowering leadership and the above two kinds of fit, and then the set of indirect effects. Using a survey sample of 6179 employees from a technology company in China, we found that empowering leadership has a positively indirect influence on employees work engagement though person-job fit and person-group fit. Further, moderated mediation analysis revealed proactive personality augmented empowering leadership direct effect on person-job fit and person-group fit and indirect effect on work engagement. Theoretical and practical implications were also discussed.

【 授权许可】

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