The Effect of Charismatic Leadership on Followership: A Moderated Mediation Model

Abstract

Abstract: With the flat development of organizations and the embodiment of the value of human capital, employees’ followership has increasingly become a key to enhancing enterprise competitiveness and maximizing corporate benefits. As an influential factor, charismatic leadership style plays an important role in inspiring followership. Based on the conservation of resources theory, this research collects a sample of 223 employees’ data by questionnaire at three time points. Hierarchical regression and bootstrap are adopted to reveal the relationship between charismatic leadership and followership, the mediating effect of psychological availability and the moderating effect of perceived human resource management strength, thus building a moderated mediation model. The research shows: Firstly, charismatic leadership has a positive influence on followership. Secondly, psychological availability partially mediates the relationship between charismatic leadership and followership. Thirdly, perceived human resource management strength plays a positive moderating role between charismatic leadership and psychological availability. Fourthly, perceived human resource management strength also moderates the mediating role of psychological availability. The research results not only confirm the mechanism of charismatic leadership on followership, uncover the black box of influencing process and discover the boundary conditions, but also enrich the utilization of conservation of resources theory. At the same time, this research provides practical enlightenment for managers to develop charismatic leadership style in organizational situations to enhance employees’ followership.

Key words: charismatic leadership, psychological availability, followership, perceived human resource management strength, conservation of resources theory

Jia Jianfeng, Niu Xueyan, Zhao Ruonan, Li Zhigang. The Effect of Charismatic Leadership on Followership: A Moderated Mediation Model[J]. Management Review, 2021, 33(6): 181-191.

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