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Effects of Ambidextrous Leadership on Employees' Work Behavior: The Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment.
Front Psychol. 2022; 13:862799.FP

Abstract

The complexity of today's organizational environment increasingly requires leaders to think in a dynamic and flexible way to resolve contradictory issues. This study explored and compared the effects of servant leadership and authoritarian leadership on employees' work behavior from the perspectives of ambidextrous leadership theory and social exchange theory, and further examined the mediating role of psychological empowerment. In this study, 315 employees from state-owned communication companies in Shandong and Zhejiang Provinces in China were selected as subjects, and path analysis was used to test the hypotheses. The results showed that servant leadership positively predicted organizational citizenship behavior and task performance. While authoritarian leadership negatively predicted organizational citizenship behavior and positively predicted task performance, psychological empowerment mediated the relationship between the two leadership styles and organizational citizenship behavior and task performance. Moreover, psychological empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior played a multiple mediating role between the two leadership styles and task performance. The theoretical implications of these findings for advancing the ambidextrous leadership theory in Chinese organizational contexts and practical approaches for corporate managers to effectively use ambidextrous leadership style were discussed.

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School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China.

School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China.

School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China.

School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China.

School of Education, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China.

School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China.

School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China.

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Journal Article

Language

eng

PubMed ID

35651581

Citation

Wang, Li, et al. "Effects of Ambidextrous Leadership On Employees' Work Behavior: the Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment." Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 13, 2022, p. 862799.

Wang L, Sun Y, Li J, et al. Effects of Ambidextrous Leadership on Employees' Work Behavior: The Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment. Front Psychol. 2022;13:862799.

Wang, L., Sun, Y., Li, J., Xu, Y., Chen, M., Zhu, X., & Wang, D. (2022). Effects of Ambidextrous Leadership on Employees' Work Behavior: The Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 862799. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.862799

Wang L, et al. Effects of Ambidextrous Leadership On Employees' Work Behavior: the Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment. Front Psychol. 2022;13:862799. PubMed PMID: 35651581.

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TY - JOUR T1 - Effects of Ambidextrous Leadership on Employees' Work Behavior: The Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment. AU - Wang,Li, AU - Sun,Yuchen, AU - Li,Jinzhi, AU - Xu,Yunxia, AU - Chen,Meifen, AU - Zhu,Xiaoyu, AU - Wang,Dawei, Y1 - 2022/05/16/ PY - 2022/01/26/received PY - 2022/03/23/accepted PY - 2022/6/2/entrez PY - 2022/6/3/pubmed PY - 2022/6/3/medline KW - authoritarian leadership KW - organizational citizenship behavior KW - psychological empowerment KW - servant leadership KW - task performance SP - 862799 EP - 862799 JF - Frontiers in psychology JO - Front Psychol VL - 13 N2 - The complexity of today's organizational environment increasingly requires leaders to think in a dynamic and flexible way to resolve contradictory issues. This study explored and compared the effects of servant leadership and authoritarian leadership on employees' work behavior from the perspectives of ambidextrous leadership theory and social exchange theory, and further examined the mediating role of psychological empowerment. In this study, 315 employees from state-owned communication companies in Shandong and Zhejiang Provinces in China were selected as subjects, and path analysis was used to test the hypotheses. The results showed that servant leadership positively predicted organizational citizenship behavior and task performance. While authoritarian leadership negatively predicted organizational citizenship behavior and positively predicted task performance, psychological empowerment mediated the relationship between the two leadership styles and organizational citizenship behavior and task performance. Moreover, psychological empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior played a multiple mediating role between the two leadership styles and task performance. The theoretical implications of these findings for advancing the ambidextrous leadership theory in Chinese organizational contexts and practical approaches for corporate managers to effectively use ambidextrous leadership style were discussed. SN - 1664-1078 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/35651581/Effects_of_Ambidextrous_Leadership_on_Employees'_Work_Behavior:_The_Mediating_Role_of_Psychological_Empowerment_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -