| Linking Empowering Leadership and Employee Work Engagement: The Effects of Person-Job Fit, Person-Group Fit, and Proactive Personality |
Received:October 16, 2017 Revised:October 16, 2017 |
Key Words: Empowering leadership; Work engagement; Person-job fit; Person-group fit; Proactive personality |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | Yan Sun | Shandong University | | Di Cai* | Shandong University | | Peng Jin Ma | Shandong University | | Hua Ya Cai | Shanghai University of Finance and Economics |
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Abstract: |
| This study examined the effects of empowering leadership on employee work engagement. We also investigated the mediating mechanism of person-job fit and person-group fit. In addition, we explored employee proactive personality's moderating role between empowering leadership and the above two kind of fit, and then the set of indirect effects. Using a survey sample of 6179 employees from a technology company in China, we found that empowering leadership has a positively indirect influence on employees work engagement though person-job fit and person-group fit. Further, moderated mediation analysis revealed proactive personality augmented empowering leadership direct effect on person-job fit and person-group fit and indirect effect on work engagement. |
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