The mechanism and effect of leader humility:An interpersonal relationship perspective

Mao, Jianghua; Liao, Jian; Yi, Han; Liu, Wenxing

doi:10.3724/sp.j.1041.2017.01219

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“…Moreover, as leader humility is a bottom-up leading approach, one of its features is that the leader pays more attention to employees' welfare and satisfying their needs [19]. Such leaders' behaviors can enhance employees' willingness to exhibit more OCB by arousing a strong sense of reciprocity and social exchange [6].…”

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“…In China, humility is highly valued by enterprises and managers, more so than in Western culture. This is because humility is considered a traditional virtue of the Chinese people [6]. Ancient proverbs such as "The humble receive benefit, while the conceited reap failure" and "Be humble" have been constantly repeated and praised by each generation, making humility an integral aspect of the Chinese culture.…”

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“…Recent studies find that the humble leader is able to set an example for employees' positive work behavior, helping them to grow in a bottom-up manner [4] and improve individual psychological empowerment [8], job satisfaction [3,9], organizational identity [10], work engagement [11,12], creativity [13], team performance [14], and employee job performance by encouraging team members to establish harmonious interpersonal relationships [3,11]. Despite these advances, little research exists in terms of investigation of the direct impact of leader humility on subordinates' extra-role behaviors, captured by the OCB [6]. A noticeable omission in the existing body of research is the relationship between leader humility and subordinates' withdrawal behavior.…”

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“…A noticeable omission in the existing body of research is the relationship between leader humility and subordinates' withdrawal behavior. In addition, although empirical evidence reveals a positive association between leader humility and employees' OCB [6], the psychological mechanism underlying this relationship is still unclear.…”

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Leader Humility, and Subordinates’ Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Withdrawal Behavior: Exploring the Mediating Mechanisms of Subordinates’ Psychological Capital

Qian

Zhang

Jiang

2020

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As a bottom-up leadership style, leader humility has received considerable attention from researchers. Among the abundant studies revealing the positive impact of leader humility on employees’ work attitude and behaviors, there is less knowledge on how leader humility influences subordinates’ organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and withdrawal behavior. On the basis of the social information processing theory, this study proposed a cross-level mediation model and examined the direct impact of leader humility on subordinates’ OCB and withdrawal behavior. We also further explored the underlying psychological mechanism and examined the mediating effect of psychological capital on these relationships. Using a two-wave panel design and 274 employees’ questionnaire data, the empirical analysis found that: (1) leader humility was positively related to subordinates’ OCB and negatively related to subordinates’ withdrawal behavior; (2) leader humility was positively related to subordinates’ psychological capital; and (3) psychological capital played a cross-level mediating role in the leader humility-subordinates’ OCB relationship and the leader humility-subordinates’ withdrawal behavior relationship. Theoretical and practical implications, limitations, and suggestions for future research are also discussed.

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Leader Humility, and Subordinates’ Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Withdrawal Behavior: Exploring the Mediating Mechanisms of Subordinates’ Psychological Capital

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Zhang

Jiang

2020

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“…Accordingly, most current research on leader humility focuses on how it promotes followers' positive behaviors toward their work and organizations, such as task performance (Diao et al 2019;Yu and Wang 2017), voice (Li et al 2019), helping behavior (Mao et al 2017), and creativity (Lei et al 2015). However, whether and how leader humility affects followers' negative behaviors toward their supervisors remains unclear.…”

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More humility, less counterproductive work behaviors? The role of interpersonal justice and trust

Wang

Luo

Zhang

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Front. Bus. Res. China

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Leader humility has emerged as an important topic in understanding the role of leadership in organizations in recent years. Though it was found to enhance subordinates' work performance and positive work behaviors, we are unaware of the psychological mechanism and boundary conditions underlying leader humility and employees' negative behaviors toward leaders. Drawing on social exchange theory and using a multistage sample including 273 employees and 55 supervisors in China, we demonstrated a negative indirect effect between leader humility and subordinates' counterproductive work behaviors toward supervisors (CWB-S) via interpersonal justice and trust in supervisor. Furthermore, we find that leader political skill moderates the effect of leader humility on interpersonal justice and trust in supervisor. The indirect effect of leader humility on subordinates' CWB-S through interpersonal justice is stronger when leader political skill is high, suggesting a moderated mediation model. Finally, we discuss the theoretical contributions and practical implications of this study, and highlight future directions for research on leader humility.

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Family supportive supervisor behaviors and work engagement: A social information processing perspective

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The mechanism and effect of leader humility:An interpersonal relationship perspective

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Leader Humility, and Subordinates’ Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Withdrawal Behavior: Exploring the Mediating Mechanisms of Subordinates’ Psychological Capital

Leader Humility, and Subordinates’ Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Withdrawal Behavior: Exploring the Mediating Mechanisms of Subordinates’ Psychological Capital

More humility, less counterproductive work behaviors? The role of interpersonal justice and trust

Family supportive supervisor behaviors and work engagement: A social information processing perspective

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