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 NameAffiliation
Yan Sun0 Shandong University 
Di Cai* Shandong University 
Peng Jin Ma0 Shandong University 
Hua Ya Cai0 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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