个体现代性背景下谦卑型领导对跨界行为的影响

Impact of Humble Leadership on the Employee's Boundary Spanning Behavior in the Background of Individual Modernity

在个体现代性普遍增强的社会背景下,以"自下而上"的方式实现领导力的谦卑型领导风格越来越受到理论界和管理实践的重视。这一领导方式能否、如何以及何时驱动员工的跨界行为却有待深入探讨。本文立足于具有深厚谦卑文化传统和个体现代性普遍增强的中国组织背景,以员工心理授权为中介和个体现代性为调节,基于被调节的中介模型探讨了谦卑型领导对员工跨界行为的影响机制。在文献回顾和理论分析的基础上提出研究假设,通过263套领导—员工有效配套问卷数据的统计分析,结果表明:(1)谦卑型领导对员工的心理授权和跨界行为具有显著的正向影响;(2)员工的心理授权对其跨界行为具有显著的正向影响,并在谦卑型领导和员工跨界行为之间具有完全中介作用;(3)个体现代性调节了谦卑型领导对员工跨界行为的正向影响,也调节了员工心理授权在谦卑型领导和员工跨界行为之间的中介效应,个体现代性高时,谦卑型领导对员工跨界行为的直接影响以及通过员工心理授权的中介进而对员工跨界行为的间接影响也随之增强,反之则减弱。研究结论拓展了中国组织情景下谦卑型领导影响效应和员工跨界行为驱动因素的实证研究,为企业管理者践行谦卑型领导行为、有效推动员工跨界行为提供了理论借鉴和管理启示。

Boundary spanning behavior has important influence on individual creativity,knowledge creation,task performance,technology innovation,team performance and organization development,which is becoming an important issue of team research.But existing research is more emphasis on the effect of the boundary spanning behavior,ignored the research of its driving factors and driving mechanism.As the continuously emerging of Chinese employee s modernity,humble leadership style that realizes the leadership in the form of“bottom-up”is more and more brought to the attention of the theoretical cycle and management practice.Can this leadership style whether,how and when to drive employees boundary spanning behavior need to be further studied.Based on the Chinese unique traditions of humble culture and modern society background of general enhancement of Chinese employee s modernity,this paper taking employee s psychological empowerment as mediating variable and taking Chinese employee s modernity as moderating variable,based on the moderated mediating model this paper discussed the influence mechanism of humble leadership on the employee s boundary spanning behavior.On the basis of literature review and theoretical analysis,this paper proposed corresponding hypotheses.Authors collected matching self-report questionnaire data from 81 department leaders and their 267 employees in 13 companies in order to test this moderated mediator effect model.Through statistical analysis of 267 sets valid questionnaire data by SPSS19.0 and LISREL8.70,results showed that:(1)humble leadership has a positive influence on employees psychological empowerment and boundary spanning behavior,that is the more frequently taking the humble leadership to employee,the more promotion of employees psychological empowerment and employee s boundary spanning behavior.(2)employees psychological empowerment has a positive influence on the employees boundary spanning behavior and has a fully mediating effect between the humble leadership and boundary spanning behavior;(3)employee s modernity has a moderating effect between the humble leadership and boundary spanning behavior,and also moderates the mediating effect of psychological capital between the humble leadership and employee s boundary spanning behavior,the positive impact of humble leadership to the employee s boundary spanning behavior and the mediating effect of psychological capital between the humble leadership and employee s boundary spanning behavior are become stronger as the Chinese employee s modernity increases.Research conclusions expanded the empirical research of the influence mechanism and effect of humble leadership under the organizational situation in China.This revealed the psychological process mechanism and constraint conditions of the influence of humble leadership to the boundary spanning behavior,responded to the academic appeal to strengthen the research on the influence mechanism and effect of humble leadership,and expanded the theoretical landscape of the influence effect of humble leadership.Research results also expanded the research of driving factors and driving mechanism of boundary spanning behavior.This research showed that the driving force of employees boundary spanning behavior can be derived from their superiors humble leadership style,employee s psychological empowerment status and the degree of Chinese employee s modernity,which responded to the call of academic circles to strengthen the research of the driving factors of boundary spanning behavior.Research conclusions provided many theoretical references and managerial revelations for the department leader to practice humility leadership behavior or effectively promote employee s boundary spanning behavior.Managers can effectively promote employees boundary spanning behavior through the humble leadership style such as learning modestly,respecting and recognizing employees value.It can also increase employees work autonomy and improve employees work influence by seeking feedback and stimulating voice behavior,thus further promoting employees boundary spanning behavior.