The curvilinear relationship between servant leadership and work-family conflict: the moderating role of age in Chinese female workers

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INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL TRAINING Pub Date : 2021-06-22 DOI:10.1108/ICT-12-2020-0114

Lei Xie, Shaoping Qiu, Xinyi Bian

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Purpose Building on social exchange theory and selection, optimization and compensation theory, this study aims to examine a moderated curvilinear relationship between servant leadership (SL) and work-family conflict (WFC). Design/methodology/approach Participants were 329 female workers recruited from a Chinese small business in the service Industry. A three-step hierarchical regression was conducted to examine the relationships among the variables and the incremental contribution of SL and age and the squared term of SL. Findings Study results confirmed a curvilinear relationship between SL and WFC and the moderating effect of age. When younger female employees perceived a moderate range of SL from their supervisors, they reported higher WFC compared to the low or high level of perceived SL. On the contrary, senior female employees reported a lower level of WFC when they perceived a moderate level of SL than when they perceived very low or high levels. Originality/value SL research has experienced a period of exponential growth in the past decade. This study advanced the field of leadership by arguing that SL perceived by female employees is curvilinearly related to WFC and the curvilinear relationship is moderated by age.

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仆人领导与工作家庭冲突的曲线关系——年龄对中国女工的调节作用

目的基于社会交换理论和选择、优化与补偿理论，探讨服务型领导与工作家庭冲突之间的有调节曲线关系。设计/方法/方法参与者为329名来自中国一家服务行业小企业的女性员工。采用三步层次回归分析了各变量间的关系，并对年龄和生活质量的增量贡献以及生活质量的平方项进行了检验。研究结果证实了生活质量与生活质量之间的曲线关系以及年龄对生活质量的调节作用。当年轻女性员工从上级那里感知到中等程度的语言表达时，她们报告的WFC比感知到低水平或高水平的语言表达时要高。相反，高级女性员工在感知到中等水平的语言表达时，报告的WFC比感知到非常低或高水平的语言表达时要低。在过去的十年里，独创性/价值研究经历了一个指数级增长的时期。本研究提出女性员工感知的SL与WFC呈曲线相关，且曲线关系受年龄的调节，从而推进了领导力领域的研究。

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