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Associations between a Leader's Work Passion and an Employee's Work Passion: A Moderated Mediation Model
Jingjing Li1, Jian Zhang1,2, Zhiguo Yang1,3
1Donlinks School of Economics and Management, University of Science and Technology BeijingBeijing, China.
Frontiers in Psychology
|September 13, 2017
Summary
Leaders can boost employee work passion through emotional contagion, especially when their goals align. This study highlights the impact of leader-employee interactions on passion in the workplace.
Area of Science:
- Organizational Behavior
- Social Psychology
Background:
- Emotional contagion theory explains how emotions spread.
- Goal content theory focuses on motivation and aspirations.
- Understanding leader-employee dynamics is crucial for workplace engagement.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the link between a leader's work passion and employee work passion.
- To explore the mediating role of emotional contagion.
- To examine the moderating effect of leader-employee goal content congruence.
Main Methods:
- Survey data from 364 employees and their leaders in China.
- Statistical analysis using SPSS-PROCESS.
- Application of the Johnson-Neyman technique for moderation analysis.
Main Results:
- Leader's work passion positively influences employee's work passion.
- Emotional contagion mediates the relationship between leader and employee passion.
- Leader-employee goal congruence moderates the emotional contagion process.
Conclusions:
- Leader's passion can be transferred to employees through emotional contagion.
- Aligning leader-employee goals enhances the passion contagion effect.
- Leader-employee interactions offer a pathway to stimulate employee work passion.
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