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How servant leadership predicts employee resilience in public organizations: a social identity perspective.
Curr Psychol. 2022 Dec 22 [Online ahead of print]CP

Abstract

Through the lens of social identity theory, this work aims to investigate the impact of servant leadership on employee resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic and to explore their underlying mechanisms through two types of social identity: organizational identification and professional identity. To test our hypotheses, an online survey was conducted via a large number of 703 employees working in public organizations in southwest China. Results yielded from the structural equation modeling analysis via AMOS (24.0) indicated that the effect of servant leadership on employee resilience was fully mediated by organizational identification and professional identity, respectively. Besides, the association between servant leadership and employee resilience was sequentially mediated from organizational identification to professional identity, and from professional identity to organizational identification. This study provides the first evidence of the predictive effect of servant leadership on employee resilience through organizational identification and professional identity, highlighting the significance of social identity for building and maintaining employees' resilience in coping with challenges posed by COVID-19.

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Peng C
School of Public Administration, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031 China.
Liang Y
School of Public Administration, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031 China.
Yuan G
School of Public Administration, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031 China.
Xie M
Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, 00185 Italy.
Mao Y
Institute of Applied Psychology, Psychological Research and Counseling Center, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031 China. Department of Psychology and Behavioral Science, Zhejiang Univeisity, Hangzhou, 310028 China.
Harmat L
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Department of Psychology, Linnaeus University, 35195 Växjö, Sweden.
Bonaiuto F
Faculty of Economics, Universitas Mercatorum, Piazza Mattei 10, 00186 Roma, Italy.

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article

Language

eng

PubMed ID

36573181

Citation

Peng, Chuanyu, et al. "How Servant Leadership Predicts Employee Resilience in Public Organizations: a Social Identity Perspective." Current Psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.), 2022, pp. 1-16.
Peng C, Liang Y, Yuan G, et al. How servant leadership predicts employee resilience in public organizations: a social identity perspective. Curr Psychol. 2022.
Peng, C., Liang, Y., Yuan, G., Xie, M., Mao, Y., Harmat, L., & Bonaiuto, F. (2022). How servant leadership predicts employee resilience in public organizations: a social identity perspective. Current Psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-04138-z
Peng C, et al. How Servant Leadership Predicts Employee Resilience in Public Organizations: a Social Identity Perspective. Curr Psychol. 2022 Dec 22;1-16. PubMed PMID: 36573181.
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TY - JOUR T1 - How servant leadership predicts employee resilience in public organizations: a social identity perspective. AU - Peng,Chuanyu, AU - Liang,Yan, AU - Yuan,Guoping, AU - Xie,Mei, AU - Mao,Yanhui, AU - Harmat,László, AU - Bonaiuto,Flavia, Y1 - 2022/12/22/ PY - 2022/12/07/accepted PY - 2022/12/27/entrez PY - 2022/12/28/pubmed PY - 2022/12/28/medline KW - Employee resilience KW - Organizational identification KW - Professional identity KW - Public organizations KW - Servant leadership SP - 1 EP - 16 JF - Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) JO - Curr Psychol N2 - Through the lens of social identity theory, this work aims to investigate the impact of servant leadership on employee resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic and to explore their underlying mechanisms through two types of social identity: organizational identification and professional identity. To test our hypotheses, an online survey was conducted via a large number of 703 employees working in public organizations in southwest China. Results yielded from the structural equation modeling analysis via AMOS (24.0) indicated that the effect of servant leadership on employee resilience was fully mediated by organizational identification and professional identity, respectively. Besides, the association between servant leadership and employee resilience was sequentially mediated from organizational identification to professional identity, and from professional identity to organizational identification. This study provides the first evidence of the predictive effect of servant leadership on employee resilience through organizational identification and professional identity, highlighting the significance of social identity for building and maintaining employees' resilience in coping with challenges posed by COVID-19. SN - 1046-1310 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/36573181/How_servant_leadership_predicts_employee_resilience_in_public_organizations:_a_social_identity_perspective_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -