The effect of spiritual leadership on employee effectiveness: An intrinsic motivation perspective
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Guo, T
Ni, Y
Shang, S
Tang, Z
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Drawing on spiritual leadership theory and intrinsic motivation theory, we proposed a homologous multilevel model to explore the effectiveness of spiritual leadership on employees' task performance, knowledge sharing behaviors and innovation behaviors at the individual level. With questionnaires rated by 306 pairs of employees and their supervisors in 26 teams from the energy industry in mainland China, we conduct multilevel analysis to examine our hypotheses. The results show that spiritual leadership was positively related to employee task performance, knowledge sharing behaviors and innovation behavior, when we controlled for possible confounding effects of moral leadership and benevolent leadership, and ruled out alternative explanation of ethical leadership. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
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Frontiers in Psychology
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9
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© 2019 Wang, Guo, Ni, Shang and Tang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Cognitive and computational psychology
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Wang, M; Guo, T; Ni, Y; Shang, S; Tang, Z, The effect of spiritual leadership on employee effectiveness: An intrinsic motivation perspective, Frontiers in Psychology, 2019, 9, pp. 2627:1-2627:11