Authentic Leadership and Proactive Behavior: The Role of Psychological Capital and Compassion at Work

This study, which is based on survey data provided by 445 employees from a Chinese enterprise, examines the impact of authentic leadership on the proactive behavior of subordinates, in particular the mediating effect of subordinate psychological capital and the moderating effect of compassion at wor...

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Autores principales: Hu, Yixin, Wu, Xiao, Zong, Zhaobiao, Xiao, Yilin, Maguire, Phil, Qu, Fangzheng, Wei, Jing, Wang, Dawei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6304388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30618919
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02470
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author Hu, Yixin
Wu, Xiao
Zong, Zhaobiao
Xiao, Yilin
Maguire, Phil
Qu, Fangzheng
Wei, Jing
Wang, Dawei
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description This study, which is based on survey data provided by 445 employees from a Chinese enterprise, examines the impact of authentic leadership on the proactive behavior of subordinates, in particular the mediating effect of subordinate psychological capital and the moderating effect of compassion at work. The results of our structural equation model reveal that: (1) There is a significant positive correlation between authentic leadership and the proactive behavior of subordinates; (2) psychological capital plays a full mediating role between authentic leadership and subordinate proactive behavior; (3) Compassion at work has a moderating effect on the positive relationship between authentic leadership and subordinate psychological capital and proactive behavior.
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spelling pubmed-63043882019-01-07 Authentic Leadership and Proactive Behavior: The Role of Psychological Capital and Compassion at Work Hu, Yixin Wu, Xiao Zong, Zhaobiao Xiao, Yilin Maguire, Phil Qu, Fangzheng Wei, Jing Wang, Dawei Front Psychol Psychology This study, which is based on survey data provided by 445 employees from a Chinese enterprise, examines the impact of authentic leadership on the proactive behavior of subordinates, in particular the mediating effect of subordinate psychological capital and the moderating effect of compassion at work. The results of our structural equation model reveal that: (1) There is a significant positive correlation between authentic leadership and the proactive behavior of subordinates; (2) psychological capital plays a full mediating role between authentic leadership and subordinate proactive behavior; (3) Compassion at work has a moderating effect on the positive relationship between authentic leadership and subordinate psychological capital and proactive behavior. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6304388/ /pubmed/30618919 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02470 Text en Copyright © 2018 Hu, Wu, Zong, Xiao, Maguire, Qu, Wei and Wang. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Hu, Yixin
Wu, Xiao
Zong, Zhaobiao
Xiao, Yilin
Maguire, Phil
Qu, Fangzheng
Wei, Jing
Wang, Dawei
Authentic Leadership and Proactive Behavior: The Role of Psychological Capital and Compassion at Work
title Authentic Leadership and Proactive Behavior: The Role of Psychological Capital and Compassion at Work
title_full Authentic Leadership and Proactive Behavior: The Role of Psychological Capital and Compassion at Work
title_fullStr Authentic Leadership and Proactive Behavior: The Role of Psychological Capital and Compassion at Work
title_full_unstemmed Authentic Leadership and Proactive Behavior: The Role of Psychological Capital and Compassion at Work
title_short Authentic Leadership and Proactive Behavior: The Role of Psychological Capital and Compassion at Work
title_sort authentic leadership and proactive behavior: the role of psychological capital and compassion at work
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6304388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30618919
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02470
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