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Empowering and directive leadership and taking charge: a moderating role of employee intrinsic motivation

Empowering and directive leadership and taking charge: a moderating role of employee intrinsic... This study aims to investigate the associations among different leadership styles and employees' taking charge. Applying Person–Environment (P-E) fit theory, the current study further explores employees' intrinsic motivation as an important individual factor that possibly moderates the hypothesized relationships.Design/methodology/approachIn this field study, 212 supervisor–employee matched multi-source data were collected from multiple organizations located in South Korea. Data were analyzed with multiple hierarchical regression.FindingsEmpowering leadership is positively related to employees' taking charge, whereas directive leadership is negatively associated with it. Results of the current study further support that intrinsically motivated employees exhibit more taking charge when their leader shows empowering leadership but reduce their taking charge when their leader demonstrates directive leadership.Research limitations/implicationsThe current empirical results could not infer causality due to a cross-sectional research design.Practical implicationsOrganizations should develop and embrace empowering leadership if the employees' self-started and change-oriented behavior, taking charge, is particularly critical to fostering organizational effectiveness.Originality/valueThis study extends the literature on leadership and employee proactivity by examining different leadership styles as predictors of employees' taking charge. Based on the current study results, empowering leadership could work as a facilitator and directive leadership as a barrier to employees' taking charge. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Managerial Psychology Emerald Publishing

Empowering and directive leadership and taking charge: a moderating role of employee intrinsic motivation

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Emerald Publishing
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© Emerald Publishing Limited
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0268-3946
DOI
10.1108/jmp-10-2022-0518
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Abstract

This study aims to investigate the associations among different leadership styles and employees' taking charge. Applying Person–Environment (P-E) fit theory, the current study further explores employees' intrinsic motivation as an important individual factor that possibly moderates the hypothesized relationships.Design/methodology/approachIn this field study, 212 supervisor–employee matched multi-source data were collected from multiple organizations located in South Korea. Data were analyzed with multiple hierarchical regression.FindingsEmpowering leadership is positively related to employees' taking charge, whereas directive leadership is negatively associated with it. Results of the current study further support that intrinsically motivated employees exhibit more taking charge when their leader shows empowering leadership but reduce their taking charge when their leader demonstrates directive leadership.Research limitations/implicationsThe current empirical results could not infer causality due to a cross-sectional research design.Practical implicationsOrganizations should develop and embrace empowering leadership if the employees' self-started and change-oriented behavior, taking charge, is particularly critical to fostering organizational effectiveness.Originality/valueThis study extends the literature on leadership and employee proactivity by examining different leadership styles as predictors of employees' taking charge. Based on the current study results, empowering leadership could work as a facilitator and directive leadership as a barrier to employees' taking charge.

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Journal of Managerial Psychology – Emerald Publishing

Published: Aug 29, 2023

Keywords: Leadership; Taking charge; Intrinsic motivation

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