Inclusive Leadership and Taking-Charge Behavior: Roles of Psychological Safety and Thriving at Work
Taking charge is an important form of proactive behavior that sustains organizational survival and individual development. Learning how to motivate employees to engage in taking-charge behavior has become one of the hot topics in the field of organizational management. Despite considerable research...
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| description | Taking charge is an important form of proactive behavior that sustains organizational survival and individual development. Learning how to motivate employees to engage in taking-charge behavior has become one of the hot topics in the field of organizational management. Despite considerable research investigating the factors influencing taking charge, less attention has been paid to leadership-related factors, such as inclusive leadership. Based on the self-determination theory and the social information processing theory, we examined the mediating roles of psychological safety and thriving at work in the relationship between inclusive leadership and taking-charge behavior. We collected data in two stages from 205 pairs of employees and their supervisors at 17 companies in mainland China. Specifically, the results revealed that inclusive leadership promoted employees’ taking-charge behavior first through psychological safety and then through thriving at work. The results describe a more detailed mechanism underlying the formation of taking-charge behavior. The results further deepen our understanding of the path from inclusive leadership to employee behavior. These findings have theoretical implications for the taking-charge literature and managerial implications for practitioners. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5b38fb86bd8c4944a4f2fb88407765232022-12-21T18:57:10ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782020-02-011110.3389/fpsyg.2020.00062509644Inclusive Leadership and Taking-Charge Behavior: Roles of Psychological Safety and Thriving at WorkHao Zeng0Lijing Zhao1Yixuan Zhao2School of Economics and Management, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang, ChinaBusiness School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, ChinaBusiness School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, ChinaTaking charge is an important form of proactive behavior that sustains organizational survival and individual development. Learning how to motivate employees to engage in taking-charge behavior has become one of the hot topics in the field of organizational management. Despite considerable research investigating the factors influencing taking charge, less attention has been paid to leadership-related factors, such as inclusive leadership. Based on the self-determination theory and the social information processing theory, we examined the mediating roles of psychological safety and thriving at work in the relationship between inclusive leadership and taking-charge behavior. We collected data in two stages from 205 pairs of employees and their supervisors at 17 companies in mainland China. Specifically, the results revealed that inclusive leadership promoted employees’ taking-charge behavior first through psychological safety and then through thriving at work. The results describe a more detailed mechanism underlying the formation of taking-charge behavior. The results further deepen our understanding of the path from inclusive leadership to employee behavior. These findings have theoretical implications for the taking-charge literature and managerial implications for practitioners.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00062/fullinclusive leadershiptaking-charge behaviorpsychological safetythriving at workself-determination theorysocial information processing theory |
| spellingShingle | Hao Zeng Lijing Zhao Yixuan Zhao Inclusive Leadership and Taking-Charge Behavior: Roles of Psychological Safety and Thriving at Work Frontiers in Psychology inclusive leadership taking-charge behavior psychological safety thriving at work self-determination theory social information processing theory |
| title | Inclusive Leadership and Taking-Charge Behavior: Roles of Psychological Safety and Thriving at Work |
| title_full | Inclusive Leadership and Taking-Charge Behavior: Roles of Psychological Safety and Thriving at Work |
| title_fullStr | Inclusive Leadership and Taking-Charge Behavior: Roles of Psychological Safety and Thriving at Work |
| title_full_unstemmed | Inclusive Leadership and Taking-Charge Behavior: Roles of Psychological Safety and Thriving at Work |
| title_short | Inclusive Leadership and Taking-Charge Behavior: Roles of Psychological Safety and Thriving at Work |
| title_sort | inclusive leadership and taking charge behavior roles of psychological safety and thriving at work |
| topic | inclusive leadership taking-charge behavior psychological safety thriving at work self-determination theory social information processing theory |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00062/full |
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