Abstract
This study seeks to examine how and when job crafting trickles down from leaders to followers in a team context. Drawing on social learning theory, we hypothesize that team leaders’ job resources mediate the relationship between team leaders’ job crafting and team members’ job crafting. Empowering leadership is proposed to strengthen the mediation effect, such that under a stronger (higher) empowering leadership style the relationship between team leaders’ job resources and team members’ job crafting is further strengthened, thereby positively influencing the overall mediated relationship. We tested our multilevel moderated mediation model with leader-subordinate paired data from 64 work teams in seven Chinese enterprises over two time periods. The results support our hypothesized mediated relationship; however, contrary to our prediction, we find that empowering leadership negatively moderates the relationship between team leaders’ job resources and team members’ job crafting, and weakens the mediation effect of team leaders’ job resources. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 894 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-15 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |
Volume | 17 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 31 Jan 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 31 Jan 2020 |
Funding
Funding: This research was funded by Ministry of Education in China Youth Foundation Project of Humanities and Social Sciences, grant number 17YJC630180; and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, grant number 2018M643786XB; and National Natural Science Foundation of China, grant number 71902166.
Funders | Funder number |
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National Natural Science Foundation of China | 71902166 |
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation | 2018M643786XB |
Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Foundation, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China | 17YJC630180 |
Keywords
- Empowering leadership
- Job crafting
- Job resources
- Leader-subordinate
- Trickle-down effect