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Authoritarian leadership and cyberloafing: A moderated mediation model of emotional exhaustion and power distance orientation

Drawing upon the conservation of resource theory (COR), this study proposes a moderated mediation model of authoritarian leadership on subordinates’ cyberloafing. Paired samples of 360 employees working in 103 teams from Chinese companies were collected at 2 points in time. The results show that aut...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Yajun, Wang, Jingjing, Akhtar, Muhammad Naseer, Wang, Yongqi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9577504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36267076
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1010845
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Wang, Jingjing
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description Drawing upon the conservation of resource theory (COR), this study proposes a moderated mediation model of authoritarian leadership on subordinates’ cyberloafing. Paired samples of 360 employees working in 103 teams from Chinese companies were collected at 2 points in time. The results show that authoritarian leadership positively affects subordinates’ cyberloafing and this relationship is mediated by emotional exhaustion. Furthermore, power distance orientation negatively moderates the relationship between authoritarian leadership and emotional exhaustion and also negatively moderates the indirect effect of authoritarian leadership on subordinates’ cyberloafing through subordinates’ emotional exhaustion. Our findings expand and enrich the literature on authoritarian leadership and cyberloafing and have significant practical implications for managing employees in this digital era.
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spelling pubmed-95775042022-10-19 Authoritarian leadership and cyberloafing: A moderated mediation model of emotional exhaustion and power distance orientation Zhang, Yajun Wang, Jingjing Akhtar, Muhammad Naseer Wang, Yongqi Front Psychol Psychology Drawing upon the conservation of resource theory (COR), this study proposes a moderated mediation model of authoritarian leadership on subordinates’ cyberloafing. Paired samples of 360 employees working in 103 teams from Chinese companies were collected at 2 points in time. The results show that authoritarian leadership positively affects subordinates’ cyberloafing and this relationship is mediated by emotional exhaustion. Furthermore, power distance orientation negatively moderates the relationship between authoritarian leadership and emotional exhaustion and also negatively moderates the indirect effect of authoritarian leadership on subordinates’ cyberloafing through subordinates’ emotional exhaustion. Our findings expand and enrich the literature on authoritarian leadership and cyberloafing and have significant practical implications for managing employees in this digital era. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-10-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9577504/ /pubmed/36267076 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1010845 Text en Copyright © 2022 Zhang, Wang, Akhtar and Wang. https://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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Zhang, Yajun
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Wang, Yongqi
Authoritarian leadership and cyberloafing: A moderated mediation model of emotional exhaustion and power distance orientation
title Authoritarian leadership and cyberloafing: A moderated mediation model of emotional exhaustion and power distance orientation
title_full Authoritarian leadership and cyberloafing: A moderated mediation model of emotional exhaustion and power distance orientation
title_fullStr Authoritarian leadership and cyberloafing: A moderated mediation model of emotional exhaustion and power distance orientation
title_full_unstemmed Authoritarian leadership and cyberloafing: A moderated mediation model of emotional exhaustion and power distance orientation
title_short Authoritarian leadership and cyberloafing: A moderated mediation model of emotional exhaustion and power distance orientation
title_sort authoritarian leadership and cyberloafing: a moderated mediation model of emotional exhaustion and power distance orientation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9577504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36267076
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1010845
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