Journal
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WORK AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 58-69Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/1359432X.2020.1813110
Keywords
Employee engagement; empowering behaviour; job crafting; person-situation interaction; proactive personality
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71902202, 71971225]
- Program for Innovation Research in Central University of Finance and Economics
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, UIBE [KY19-02]
- Young Teacher Development Fund in Central University of Finance and Economics
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The study found that leader empowering behavior had an indirect effect on employees' job crafting through work engagement, and also suggested that leader empowering behavior may be more effective for less proactive employees.
The study investigates how daily fluctuations in leader self-rated empowering behaviour are related to employees' daily level job crafting behaviour. From an interactionist perspective, the authors propose and test two competing theoretical models investigating how supervisors' daily empowering behaviour and subordinates' proactive personality jointly affect subordinates' daily work engagement and daily job crafting. One hundred and six leader-follower dyads working in several companies completed a questionnaire and a diary booklet over five consecutive workdays. The results of multi-level analyses revealed a cross-level-moderated mediation model, of which the indirect effect of empowering behaviour on job crafting via work engagement was stronger for less proactive employees than for higher proactive employees. The findings reveal a compensatory relation between leader empowering behaviour and employee proactive personality, suggesting that empowering behaviour would be more effective for increasing the work engagement of less proactive workers. Future directions and human resource management implications are discussed.
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