Stronger Together: Conditional Indirect Effect of Servant Leadership on Transactive Memory Systems

The leadership literature suggests that followers are likely to be autonomously motivated when working for servant leaders, leading them to experience greater psychological empowerment. Guided by self-determination theory, we predicted that this empowerment would then heighten individuals’ perceptions of their teams’ transactive memory systems. When subordinates perceive that discrimination is occurring in their workgroup, however, we expected that the empowerment—transactive memory systems link would be weakened. This moderated mediation model was tested at multiple timepoints using 211 employees from a variety of industries and job types. The results generally supported our predictions, and the implications for theory and practice are discussed.

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Entrepreneurs’ Felt Responsibility for Constructive Change and Entrepreneurial Performance: A Moderated Mediation Model of Technology Action and Market Orientation

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.751821 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Yuechao Du ◽

Honghao Hu ◽

Zhongming Wang

Keyword(s):

Market Orientation ◽

Self Determination Theory ◽

Self Determination ◽

Mediation Model ◽

Entrepreneurial Performance ◽

Moderated Mediation Model ◽

Influencing Mechanism ◽

Felt Responsibility ◽

The Relationship

Drawing on self-determination theory, we examine the mechanism through which entrepreneurs’ felt responsibility for constructive change affects entrepreneurial performance and how market orientation affects the influencing mechanism. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 424 entrepreneurs in China. The results show that entrepreneurs’ felt responsibility for constructive change is positively related to technology action and entrepreneurial performance, and technology action mediates the relationship between entrepreneurs’ felt responsibility for constructive change and entrepreneurial performance. In addition, market orientation moderates the relationship between technology action and entrepreneurial performance such that the relationship is stronger when the market orientation is higher. Our findings suggest that when entrepreneur feel responsible for constructive change, they tend to take technology actions to achieve their goals and improve the long-term development of ventures. It is also important for entrepreneurs to hold a market orientation, which helps them be aware of changes in customer needs rather than blindly focusing on the use of the latest technologies. Our study is pioneering in exploring entrepreneurs’ felt responsibility for constructive change in the entrepreneurial context, advancing the research on entrepreneurship psychology.

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Expertise Diversity and Transactive Memory Systems: Insights From a Conflict Perspective

Small Group Research ◽

10.1177/1046496420957103 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 104649642095710

Author(s):

Gergana Todorova

Keyword(s):

Longitudinal Data ◽

Memory Systems ◽

Transactive Memory ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Task Conflict ◽

Management Theory ◽

Relationship Conflict ◽

Transactive Memory Systems ◽

Team Members

Transactive memory systems (TMS) facilitate the utilization and coordination of diverse knowledge inputs, and therefore TMS should be particularly important for teams with expertise diversity. However, TMS in diverse teams may be inhibited by conflict. Adopting a conflict perspective, this study examines whether expertise diversity fosters or inhibits TMS in creative teams. Using longitudinal data, TMS was inhibited when team members engaged in relationship conflict. In contrast, task conflict fostered TMS. Furthermore, the results showed that expertise diversity affected TMS through task conflict and relationship conflict. I discuss the implications for management theory and practice.

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Impact of Future Work Self on Employee Workplace Wellbeing: A Self-Determination Perspective

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.656874 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Zhongqiu Li ◽

Yang Yang ◽

Xue Zhang ◽

Zhuo Lyu

Keyword(s):

Positive Relationship ◽

Self Determination Theory ◽

Self Determination ◽

Self Management ◽

Mediation Model ◽

Work Related ◽

Moderated Mediation Model ◽

Person Organization Fit ◽

Future Work ◽

Future Work Self

This study examines the association between future work self and employee workplace wellbeing by proposing a moderated mediation model. On the basis of the self-determination theory, self-management is identified as the mediator, and person–organization fit is recognized as the moderator in this study. We collected two waves of data from 239 Chinese employees. The results of the analysis revealed that the future work self is related to greater employee workplace wellbeing, and self-management mediates the links between them. We also found that the person–organization fit strengthens the positive relationship between future work self and self-management, and the indirect effect of future work self on employee workplace wellbeing through self-management. The results of this study extend the antecedents of employee workplace wellbeing and highlight the importance of future work self in current work-related output.

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