The Impact Of The Humble Leadership On Employees' Proactive Behavior: Investigating The Mediating And Moderating Mechanisms

Humble leadership is one kind of "Bottom-up" leadership.Humble leadership is featured by accurate self-awareness,appreciation of others' advantages and contributions and the teachability.At present,the research of humble leadership is at the initial stage.Related researches in both China and abroad have found that humble leadership has positive impact on employees' job satisfaction,work performance,work engagement and creativity,so that we have gained a preliminary recognition on the outcomes of humble leadership,which means that further research about humble leadership and its outcomes is needed.The research mainly focus on the impact of humble leadership on proactive behavior,the mediating effect of leader-member exchange and the moderating effect of traditionality.481 enterprise and public institution workers were analyzed through internet survey in the study one and study two contained 304 samples from a listed company in Fujian province.Based on the statistical softwares,SPSS 19.0 and AMOS 21.0,the conclusions obtained in the research are:(1)The humble leadership has a positive impact on the proactive behavior.(2)The humble leadership has a positive impact on the leader-member exchange.(3)The leader-member exchange has a positive impact on the proactive behavior.(4)The leader-member exchange has mediating effect between the humble leadership and the proactive behavior.(5)The traditionality has moderating effect between the humble leadership and the leader-member exchange,the stronger the traditionality,the weaker the impact humble leadership on leader-member exchange.The main contributions of the research include:(1)As a new concept from the west,the research enriches its study in Chinese cultural context.(2)Humble leadership is studied together with proactive behavior for the first time,which broaden the outcome research of humble leadership.(3)On the basis of social exchange theory,the reseach explored the mediating effect of leader-member exchange between humble leadership and proactive behavior,which is of great significance to reveal the "black box" that humble leadership functions.(4)The research discussed the contingency effect of trationality on the relationship between humble leadership and leader-member exchange,which helps to clarify the boarder of humble leadership's effect.