TY - JOUR T1 - When and Why Leaders' Helping Behavior Promotes Employees' Thriving: Exploring the Role of Voice Behavior and Perceived Leader's Role Overload. AU - Chen,Long, AU - Zhang,Zhen-Duo, AU - Jia,Wen-Tong, Y1 - 2020/09/30/ PY - 2020/04/19/received PY - 2020/08/26/accepted PY - 2020/10/26/entrez PY - 2020/10/27/pubmed PY - 2020/10/27/medline KW - perceived leader’s helping behavior KW - perceived leader’s role overload KW - social learning theory KW - thriving at work KW - voice behavior SP - 553512 EP - 553512 JF - Frontiers in psychology JO - Front Psychol VL - 11 N2 - Employees who thrive contribute to their organization's competitive advantage and sustainable performance. The aim of this study was to explore how employees' thriving is shaped by their leaders' behavior. Drawing on social learning theory, we examined the relationship between perceived leader's helping behavior and employees' thriving. Positing voice behavior as a mediator and perceived leader's role overload as a moderator, we constructed a moderated mediation model. Using 205 daily data points from 51 employees in various industries, we found that perceived leader's helping behavior had a positive effect on employees' thriving at work and that employees' voice behavior mediated this effect. With the increase of perceived leader's role overload, the positive relationship between perceived leader's helping behavior and employees' voice behavior as well as the indirect effect of perceived leader's helping behavior on employees' thriving via employees' voice behavior were increasingly strong. The findings of our study have implications for research on employees' thriving at work, leaders' helping behavior, and social learning theory. There are also practical implications for the behavior of leaders who experience role overload. SN - 1664-1078 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/33101127/When_and_Why_Leaders'_Helping_Behavior_Promotes_Employees'_Thriving:_Exploring_the_Role_of_Voice_Behavior_and_Perceived_Leader's_Role_Overload_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -