Does Leaders' Positive Emotion Increase Followers' Person-Job Fit: A Cross-Level Moderated Mediation Model

Abstract

Despite a lot of researches that examine person-job fit, the relationship between leaders' positive emotion and person-job fit has attracted insufficient attention. Drawing on the emotion as the social information theory (hereafter EASI), this study proposes a multi-level moderated mediation model in which leaders' positive emotion promote followers' person-job fit via psychological safety and this indirect effect is moderated by followers' organizational identification. The study contributes to person-job fit related literature by clarifying the importance of leaders' positive emotion in prompting the math between employees and job.