TY - JOUR T1 - Distributed Leadership and New Generation Employees' Proactive Behavior: Roles of Idiosyncratic Deals and Meaningfulness of Work. AU - Xu,Shuhui, AU - Zhang,Haomin, AU - Dai,Yi, AU - Ma,Jun, AU - Lyu,Ledi, Y1 - 2021/11/10/ PY - 2021/08/09/received PY - 2021/10/11/accepted PY - 2021/12/3/entrez PY - 2021/12/4/pubmed PY - 2021/12/4/medline KW - distributed leadership KW - idiosyncratic deals KW - meaningfulness of work KW - multistep mediation KW - proactive behavior SP - 755513 EP - 755513 JF - Frontiers in psychology JO - Front Psychol VL - 12 N2 - New generation employees have become the main force of the organization, and their proactive behavior directly affects the organization's future development. How to effectively stimulate the proactive behavior of new generation employees has become a hot topic in the field of organizational management. Based on the integrated perspective of social exchange and self-enhancement, we constructed a multistep mediation model to explore the influence mechanism of distributed leadership on the proactive behavior of new generation employees. We designed a three-stage research method of supervisor-employee pairing to collect data from 26 supervisors and 304 new generation employees in a new energy vehicle company in East China. Results indicated that (a) distributed leadership is positively related to proactive behavior of new generation employees; (b) idiosyncratic deals and meaningfulness of work mediated the linkage between distributed leadership and new generation employees' proactive behavior; (c) idiosyncratic deals and meaningfulness of work play a multistep mediation role between distributed leadership and new generation employees' proactive behavior. These findings have theoretical implications for the proactive behavior literature and managerial implications for practitioners. SN - 1664-1078 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/34858283/Distributed_Leadership_and_New_Generation_Employees'_Proactive_Behavior:_Roles_of_Idiosyncratic_Deals_and_Meaningfulness_of_Work_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -