Empathetic leadership and employees' innovative behavior: examining the roles of career adaptability and uncertainty avoidance
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Empathetic leadership boosts employee innovative behavior by enhancing career adaptability. Higher uncertainty avoidance strengthens this positive effect, highlighting leadership
Area Of Science
- Organizational Behavior
- Industrial-Organizational Psychology
- Career Development
Background
- Career construction theory suggests adaptivity influences career adapting via career adaptability.
- Limited research explores the mediating mechanisms linking leadership adaptivity to employee career adapting.
- Conservation of resources theory provides a framework for understanding how resources are managed and replenished.
Purpose Of The Study
- To investigate the mediating role of career adaptability (concern, control, curiosity, confidence) in the relationship between empathetic leadership and innovative behavior.
- To examine the moderating effect of uncertainty avoidance on the pathway from empathetic leadership to innovative behavior.
- To test a model integrating career construction theory and conservation of resources theory.
Main Methods
- A quantitative study utilizing SPSS and bootstrap methods (PROCESS).
- Sample of 301 employees from diverse firms and industries.
- Validated scales measured empathetic leadership, career adaptability, uncertainty avoidance, and innovative behavior.
Main Results
- Empathetic leadership positively correlates with employee innovative behavior.
- Career adaptability dimensions (concern, control, curiosity, confidence) mediate the leadership-innovation link.
- Uncertainty avoidance moderates both the direct and indirect effects, strengthening the positive relationship between empathetic leadership and innovative behavior when uncertainty avoidance is high.
Conclusions
- Empathetic leadership is a key driver of employee innovative behavior through enhanced career adaptability.
- Uncertainty avoidance can amplify the positive impact of empathetic leadership on innovation.
- Individuals with high uncertainty avoidance may rely more on empathetic leadership to foster career adaptability and subsequent innovative behavior.
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