TY - JOUR T1 - Transformational Leadership and Employee Job Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Employee Relations Climate and the Moderating Role of Subordinate Gender. AU - Chen,Chiyin, AU - Ding,Xinyi, AU - Li,Jiachen, Y1 - 2021/12/26/ PY - 2021/10/16/received PY - 2021/12/23/revised PY - 2021/12/24/accepted PY - 2022/1/11/entrez PY - 2022/1/12/pubmed PY - 2022/1/27/medline KW - employee job satisfaction KW - employee relations climate KW - subordinate gender KW - transformational leadership JF - International journal of environmental research and public health JO - Int J Environ Res Public Health VL - 19 IS - 1 N2 - Scholars have paid extensive attention to transformational leadership for decades. However, existing studies still lack ample discussions on the underlying mechanism and boundary conditions of its influence on employee job satisfaction. This study proposed a moderated mediation model based on social exchange theory. We collected survey data from 211 frontline employees to verify our hypotheses. The results showed that transformational leadership was positively associated with employee job satisfaction via the mediation role of the perceived employee relations climate. Furthermore, the relationship between transformational leadership and the employee relations climate, as well as the indirect relationship between the two, was demonstrated to be more significant for male employees. This study offered a new account of the mechanisms of transformational leadership and clarified a boundary condition for its effectiveness. SN - 1660-4601 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/35010493/Transformational_Leadership_and_Employee_Job_Satisfaction:_The_Mediating_Role_of_Employee_Relations_Climate_and_the_Moderating_Role_of_Subordinate_Gender_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -