The influence of family firm CEOs’ transformational leadership on employee engagement: the mediating role of psychological safety

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Laura Hoekx, Frank Lambrechts, Pieter Vandekerkhof
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Abstract

Purpose

This study aims to unravel a potential determinant of employee engagement in family firms. In particular, we focus on the role of the CEO by studying the influence of CEO transformational leadership on employee engagement. Moreover, we look into the potential mediating psychological safety might play in this relationship.

Design/methodology/approach

Based on an extensive literature review, we propose that there will be a significant positive relationship between family firm CEOs’ transformational leadership and the level of employee engagement. We argue that psychological safety will serve as an underlying mechanism explaining this positive relationship. We empirically tested our research model using quantitative data collected through a questionnaire, completed by 508 employees from Belgian family firms.

Findings

The results confirm the positive relationship between CEOs’ transformational leadership and employee engagement. Moreover, these results show that the degree of psychological safety mediates this relationship.

Originality/value

This study forms a significant contribution to family firm literature. Until now, even though existing studies on employee engagement in general are numerous, we had little to no knowledge of the factors influencing employee engagement taking into account the unique context of family firms. With this study, we take an important step in this matter. In addition, this study also contributes to the general literature on employee engagement, since previous studies on the impact of leadership on employee engagement tended to focus on the role of the immediate supervisors and not the CEO.

家族企业首席执行官的变革型领导力对员工敬业度的影响:心理安全的中介作用
目的 本研究旨在揭示家族企业中员工敬业度的潜在决定因素。我们特别关注首席执行官的作用,研究首席执行官变革型领导力对员工敬业度的影响。基于广泛的文献综述,我们提出,家族企业首席执行官的变革型领导力与员工敬业度之间存在显著的正相关关系。我们认为,心理安全是解释这种积极关系的内在机制。我们通过问卷调查收集了 508 名比利时家族企业员工填写的定量数据,对我们的研究模型进行了实证检验。结果结果证实了首席执行官的变革型领导力与员工敬业度之间的正相关关系。此外,这些结果表明,心理安全程度对这种关系起到了中介作用。迄今为止,尽管有关员工敬业度的研究很多,但我们对影响员工敬业度的因素却知之甚少,甚至没有考虑到家族企业的独特背景。通过这项研究,我们在这方面迈出了重要的一步。此外,本研究还对有关员工敬业度的一般文献有所贡献,因为以往有关领导力对员工敬业度影响的研究往往侧重于直接主管的作用,而不是首席执行官的作用。
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