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- Title
Differential leadership and innovation performance of new generation employees: the moderating effect of self-efficacy.
- Authors
Zhang, Xuge; Wu, Mengyun; Lu, Jie
- Abstract
New-generation employees wield substantial influence over an organization's innovation capacity and long-term sustainability. This study examines data from 276 of such employees in Chinese family enterprises, delving into the impact of differential leadership on their innovation performance and the nuanced effects it entails. We investigate how employee self-efficacy molds the influence of leadership behavior. Our findings uncover that while differential leadership can augment the innovation performance of new-generation employees through enhanced job crafting, it can also hinder this performance by exacerbating job burnout. Employee self-efficacy emerges as pivotal, moderating the influence of differential leadership positively on job crafting and negatively on job burnout. Moreover, our study validates the moderating effect of employee self-efficacy on the mediating role of job crafting and job burnout. comprehension of the mechanisms and constraints of differential leadership within Chinese organizational frameworks. The insights gleaned offer practical guidance for enterprise managers looking to employ differential leadership styles to nurture the creativity of new-generation employees and uplift their innovation performance.
- Subjects
NEW employees; SELF-efficacy; JOB performance; INNOVATION management; FAMILY-owned business enterprises; MASLACH Burnout Inventory; LEADERSHIP
- Publication
Current Psychology, 2024, Vol 43, Issue 23, p20584
- ISSN
1046-1310
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12144-024-05847-3