Followers’ PsyCap and Job Performance: A Longitudinal COR Approach to Transformational Leadership as a Key Resource
Rooted in both the self-concept based theory of transformational leadership and the conservation of resources (COR) theory, transformational leadership is hypothesized to elicit follower-felt support for excellence and, through it, follower psychological capital (PsyCap), resulting in high follower...
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| author | Sunu Widianto Celeste P. M. Wilderom |
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| description | Rooted in both the self-concept based theory of transformational leadership and the conservation of resources (COR) theory, transformational leadership is hypothesized to elicit follower-felt support for excellence and, through it, follower psychological capital (PsyCap), resulting in high follower job performance as well as work engagement. We examined this three-path mediation model with change scores from a two-wave study of 149 Indonesian healthcare workers. When applying structural equation modeling to the change scores, the integrated model was supported. Further cross-lagged analysis showed that transformational leadership had a lagged effect on follower PsyCap and that follower PsyCap had, in turn, a lagged effect on follower job performance. Hence, PsyCap is proposed as a parsimonious element in the self-concept-based theory of transformational leadership. Moreover, the results suggest that the transformational style can be added as a so-called “key” resource to COR’s notion of “gain spirals.” |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1c30d751ac634a278374e3584b9f9eb92023-09-29T13:34:02ZengSAGE PublishingSAGE Open2158-24402023-09-011310.1177/21582440231201702Followers’ PsyCap and Job Performance: A Longitudinal COR Approach to Transformational Leadership as a Key ResourceSunu Widianto0Celeste P. M. Wilderom1 Padjadjaran University, Indonesia University of Twente, The NetherlandsRooted in both the self-concept based theory of transformational leadership and the conservation of resources (COR) theory, transformational leadership is hypothesized to elicit follower-felt support for excellence and, through it, follower psychological capital (PsyCap), resulting in high follower job performance as well as work engagement. We examined this three-path mediation model with change scores from a two-wave study of 149 Indonesian healthcare workers. When applying structural equation modeling to the change scores, the integrated model was supported. Further cross-lagged analysis showed that transformational leadership had a lagged effect on follower PsyCap and that follower PsyCap had, in turn, a lagged effect on follower job performance. Hence, PsyCap is proposed as a parsimonious element in the self-concept-based theory of transformational leadership. Moreover, the results suggest that the transformational style can be added as a so-called “key” resource to COR’s notion of “gain spirals.”https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440231201702 |
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| title | Followers’ PsyCap and Job Performance: A Longitudinal COR Approach to Transformational Leadership as a Key Resource |
| title_full | Followers’ PsyCap and Job Performance: A Longitudinal COR Approach to Transformational Leadership as a Key Resource |
| title_fullStr | Followers’ PsyCap and Job Performance: A Longitudinal COR Approach to Transformational Leadership as a Key Resource |
| title_full_unstemmed | Followers’ PsyCap and Job Performance: A Longitudinal COR Approach to Transformational Leadership as a Key Resource |
| title_short | Followers’ PsyCap and Job Performance: A Longitudinal COR Approach to Transformational Leadership as a Key Resource |
| title_sort | followers psycap and job performance a longitudinal cor approach to transformational leadership as a key resource |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440231201702 |
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