TY - JOUR T1 - Linking Empowering Leadership and Employee Work Engagement: The Effects of Person-Job Fit, Person-Group Fit, and Proactive Personality. AU - Cai,Di, AU - Cai,Yahua, AU - Sun,Yan, AU - Ma,Jinpeng, Y1 - 2018/07/31/ PY - 2018/03/28/received PY - 2018/07/09/accepted PY - 2018/8/16/entrez PY - 2018/8/16/pubmed PY - 2018/8/16/medline KW - empowering leadership KW - person-group fit KW - person-job fit KW - proactive personality KW - work engagement SP - 1304 EP - 1304 JF - Frontiers in psychology JO - Front Psychol VL - 9 N2 - 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. SN - 1664-1078 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/30108534/Linking_Empowering_Leadership_and_Employee_Work_Engagement:_The_Effects_of_Person_Job_Fit_Person_Group_Fit_and_Proactive_Personality_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -