리더의 겸손과 직원들의 번영감

Abstract

As a positive psychological state characterized by a joint sense of vitality and learning, “thriving at work” has become a popular research topic in the emerging field of positive organizational scholarship. Consistent with this, our study was conducted to explore the antecedents that can contribute to employees’ thriving at work. Drawing on socially embedded theory, we construct a sequential mediation model that investigates the relationship between leader humility and employees’ thriving with the mediation mechanism of employees’ psychological ownership and i-deals. Furthermore, the moderating roles of perceived overqualification and psychological entitlement on this mediated relationship were also considered. Using a sample of 386 employees working in different organizations from China, the results provided empirical support for the direct and indirect hypothesized relationship through the SPSS PROCESS Macro. Regarding moderation effects, however, only psychological entitlement significantly moderated the psychological ownership―i-deals relationship and the sequential mediating relationship between leader humility and thriving. These findings shed light on managerial practices regarding how to secure a “thriving workforce” by emphasizing the importance of leader humility and paying attention to the means through which the leaders’ competency is demonstrated to employees. Limitations and future research directions were also discussed.