The Impact of Empowering Leadership on Taking Charge Behaviors: Mediating Strengths Use and Moderating Ambition

IF 4.6 Q2 MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS

ACS Applied Bio Materials Pub Date : 2024-07-24 DOI:10.3390/bs14080633

Lingnan Kong, Yang Liu, He Ding, Shan Liu, Shunkun Yu

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Abstract

Drawing on conservation of resources theory, this study aims to explore the mediating role of employees’ strengths use and the moderating role of employees’ ambitions in the relationship between empowering leadership and employees’ taking charge behaviors. A total of 333 Chinese employees from various organizations across China (including industries such as manufacturing, IT, and education) completed our survey at two time points, with a two-week lag. We used structural equation modeling and moderated mediation path analysis to test our hypotheses. The research revealed that strengths use partially mediated the relationship between empowering leadership and employees’ taking charge behaviors, and ambition positively moderated the relationship between empowering leadership and strengths use, as well as the indirect relationship between empowering leadership and employees’ taking charge behaviors through strengths use. It extends the application field of strengths use, providing a new theoretical perspective on behavioral mechanisms for understanding the empowering leadership–employees’ taking charge behaviors relationship, and offers valuable strategies for organizations and leaders to promote employees’ taking charge behaviors more effectively.

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授权型领导对负责行为的影响：优势利用和雄心壮志的中介作用

本研究以资源守恒理论为基础，旨在探讨在授权型领导与员工负责行为之间的关系中，员工优势利用的中介作用和员工抱负的调节作用。共有 333 名来自中国不同组织（包括制造业、IT 和教育等行业）的中国员工在两个时间点（滞后两周）完成了我们的调查。我们采用结构方程模型和调节中介路径分析来检验我们的假设。研究结果表明，优势运用部分调节了授权型领导与员工负责行为之间的关系，雄心正向调节了授权型领导与优势运用之间的关系，并通过优势运用间接调节了授权型领导与员工负责行为之间的关系。该研究拓展了优势运用的应用领域，为理解授权型领导与员工负责行为之间的行为机制提供了新的理论视角，并为组织和领导者更有效地促进员工负责行为提供了有价值的策略。

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ACS Applied Bio Materials Chemistry-Chemistry (all)

CiteScore

9.40

自引率

2.10%

发文量

464

期刊介绍： ACS Applied Bio Materials is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research covering all aspects of biomaterials and biointerfaces including and beyond the traditional biosensing, biomedical and therapeutic applications. The journal is devoted to reports of new and original experimental and theoretical research of an applied nature that integrates knowledge in the areas of materials, engineering, physics, bioscience, and chemistry into important bio applications. The journal is specifically interested in work that addresses the relationship between structure and function and assesses the stability and degradation of materials under relevant environmental and biological conditions.