How Daily FSSB and Ethical Leadership Affect Work Stress for Chinese Public Servants

Liu Chongrui,Zhang Cheng,Wang Cong,Chen Jizhou,Wang Hongjie,Y Ahn,F Wu

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202021403027

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https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202021403027

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Employees’ work stress has been studied extensively. This study investigates how day-to-day family supportive supervisor behaviors (FSSB hereafter) affect daily subordinates’ work stress. 137 employees responded to daily surveys for 10 days. With a total of 1370 surveys, the results showed that daily FSSB was positively related to daily subordinates’ positive emotions, and ethical leadership positively moderated the relationship between the two. In addition, daily FSSB and daily subordinates’ positive emotions had negative effect on daily work stress, which provided evidence that daily subordinates’ positive emotions played a mediating role in the relation of daily FSSB and daily work stress.

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As work stress is more and more becoming a key factor influencing employees’ psychological and physical state (Nielsen et al, 2008)
This study addresses the within-individual relationship of FSSB and subordinates’ work stress as mediated by positive
This study aimed to investigate the effects of work related family-support on subordinates’ work stress which was mostly universal in organizations

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As work stress is more and more becoming a key factor influencing employees’ psychological and physical state (Nielsen et al, 2008). How to relieve employees’ work stress has attracted significant attention in organizational research. Co-workers and supervisors play an important role in deviating subordinates’ stress (Sloan, 2012; Edwards, 1999). Supervisors’ support plays a more important role in relieving subordinates’ work-related stress (e.g., Yang et al, 2015). Supervisors’ family supports increasingly make a massive contribution under the current circumstance that the majority of employees act family roles as well as work role simultaneously (Thomas & Ganster, 1995). Behson (2005) proposed that compared to other variable of organizational family-related support, FSSB contributed to more variance in employee stress Supervisors’ family supports increasingly make a massive contribution under the current circumstance that the majority of employees act family roles as well as work role simultaneously (Thomas & Ganster, 1995). Behson (2005) proposed that compared to other variable of organizational family-related support, FSSB contributed to more variance in employee stress

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