| How Authentic Leadership Influences Employee Proactivity: The Sequential Mediating Effects of Psychological Empowerment and Core Self-evaluations and the Moderating Role of Employee Political Skill |
Received:October 16, 2017 Revised:October 16, 2017 |
Key Words: Authentic leadership, Psychological empowerment, Core self-evaluations, Proactive behavior, Political skill |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | Jing Zhang* | Renmin University of China | | Yue Wang | Renmin University of China | | Guangjian Liu | Renmin University of China |
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Abstract: |
| The study aims to examine the authentic leadership - employee proactive behavior relationship. We argue that such relationship is sequentially mediated by psychological empowerment and core self-evaluations. In addition, political skill plays a moderating role in the third stage. These hypotheses are validated by 65 leaders and 275 subordinates from two private enterprises in Chinese mainland. Results show that authentic leadership (Time 1) forecasts employee proactive behavior (Time 3) through psychological empowerment (Time 1) and core self-evaluations of employee (Time 2). Employee political skill plays a moderating role at the third stage. When the level of employee political skills is high, core self-evaluations has a stronger positive correlation with proactive behavior. Bootstrapping verifies the indirect effects of the model. The main effect is influenced by employee political skill. The theoretical and managerial implications of our research are further discussed. |
