Top‐down and bottom‐up: Examining reciprocal relationships between leader humility and team helping behavior

• Published in: Journal of organizational behavior Vol. 43; no. 7; pp. 1240 - 1250
• Main Authors: Wang, Danni, Liu, Yuwen, Hsieh, Ying‐Che, Zhang, Zhen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester Wiley Periodicals Inc 01.09.2022
• Subjects: Group performance; Helping behavior; humility; Indirect effects; Multisource; objective team outcomes; Organizational behavior; Organizational change; social exchange; Social exchange theory; team helping behavior; Teams

Summary Based on social exchange theory, we develop and test a longitudinal model in which leaders' expressed humility and team members' helping behavior reciprocally influence each other over time and ultimately predict subsequent team performance and turnover. Using multisource, 3‐wave r...