Exploring the moderated mediation relationship between leader narcissism and employees’ innovative behavior
| Autor: | Jiangjiang Zhang, Jie Yang, Jian Li, Feng Tian, Mingchao Chang, Lulu Zhou |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Context (language use) General Business Management and Accounting Structural equation modeling Obedience Social information processing Moderated mediation Great Rift 0502 economics and business Narcissism medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Common-method variance medicine.symptom Psychology Social psychology 050203 business & management media_common |
| Zdroj: | Chinese Management Studies. 15:137-154 |
| ISSN: | 1750-614X |
| DOI: | 10.1108/cms-10-2019-0363 |
| Popis: | PurposeBased on the social information processing theory, the purpose of this study is to propose a conceptualized moderated mediation model for testing the linkage between leader narcissism and employees’ innovative behavior through the mediating effect of employees’ cognitive dependency and the moderating effect of environmental uncertainty between employees’ cognitive dependency and their innovative behavior.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, multisource data from 266 employees and their supervisors in 11 large high-tech Chinese companies were collected through a field study and an online survey. The hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling and bootstrapping.FindingsThe results of this study show that leader narcissism has a negative impact on employees’ innovative behavior and that employees’ cognitive dependency plays a mediating role between leader narcissism and employees’ innovative behavior. Cognitive dependency and environmental uncertainty play moderated mediation roles between leader narcissism and employees’ innovative behavior.Research limitations/implicationsIn the future, longitudinal research and experimental methods can be used to avoid common method bias. Further studies could allow leaders to evaluate environmental uncertainty and explore the emotional path by which leader narcissism has negative effects on followers’ innovation from social information processing theory. In addition, future studies can explore cognitive dependency more deeply from the perspectives of forced obedience and active worship.Practical implicationsOrganizations should warn leaders to control the dark side of narcissism and minimize environmental uncertainty to reduce barriers to innovation.Originality/valueThis study constructs the path of the effect of leader narcissism on employees’ innovation through employees’ cognitive dependency in a specific context, which enriches theoretical research on the link between leaders’ traits and employees’ innovative behavior. Along with the finding of leader narcissism’s negative effect on employees’ innovative behavior, this study explores the dark side of leader narcissism in the context of China’s high-tech firms and environmental uncertainty. |
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