Is Spiritual Leadership One of the Drivers of Proactive Behavior? Testing of a Multiple Mediating Effects Model

Abstract

Abstract:

As a new orientation of leadership development, spiritual leadership has a very critical influence on employees' proactive be-haviors and work performances. However, few studies have explored this influence as well as its mechanism. Therefore, based on system-atic analysis of relevant theoretical and empirical literature, this research tries to build a model describing how employees' proactive be-haviors are driven by spiritual leadership. The results show that spiritual leadership is positively associated with psychological capital, or-ganization-based self-esteem and proactive behavior; and psychological capital is positively associated with organization-based self-esteem and proactive behavior; besides, organization-based self-esteem is positively associated with proactive behavior. Further, the structural e-quation analysis suggests that spiritual leadership affects employees' proactive behaviors through the following three ways:First, psycho-logical capital mediates the relationship between spiritual leadership and proactive behavior; Second, organization-based self-esteem me-diates the relationship between spiritual leadership and proactive behavior; Third, psychological capital and organization-based self-es-teem also mediate the relationship between spiritual leadership and proactive behavior. The findings help to clarify the inherent mecha-nism of spiritual leadership affecting employees' proactive behaviors and guide leaders and managers to take appropriate measures to stimulate employees' proactive behavior in their workplace.

Key words: spiritual leadership, proactive behavior, psychological capital, organization-based self-esteem

Yang Zhenfang, Chen Qingwen, Zhu Yu, Zeng Bosen. Is Spiritual Leadership One of the Drivers of Proactive Behavior? Testing of a Multiple Mediating Effects Model[J]. , 2016, 28(11): 191-202.

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