The link between English foreign language teacher’s professional identity and their critical thinking that leads to teacher’s success in the Chinese context: Leaders motivational language as a moderator

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the link between English foreign language teacher’s professional identity and employee success via mediating role of critical thinking. Further, we examined the moderating role of leader motivational language between employee professional identity and critical thing and also indirect effect on employee success via critical thinking. We collected data from Chinese MNC’s school by using time lagged study design. We used hierarchical linear regression for direct hypotheses and Hayes PROCESS model’s for mediation, moderation, and mediation moderation analysis. The results show that there is positive relation between employee’s professional identity and teacher’s success. Further, critical thinking mediates the link between professional identity and employee success. The results of the moderated mediation analysis show that critical thinking mediated the interaction of employee’s professional identity and leader’s motivational language on teacher’s success.

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“…The emergence of this situation, on the one hand, makes us deepen our understanding of the importance of professional identity, and on the other hand, illustrates once again that the effectiveness of leadership behavior is different under different conditions . When subordinates do not agree with their profession, the caring and tolerance to mistakes of benevolent leadership may make subordinates lower their requirements on themselves, and thus make them more mediocrity and muddle along in work, and even produce work withdrawal behavior or workplace deviant behavior (Ding et al, 2022).…”