Authentic leadership, perceived insider status, error management climate, and employee resilience: A cross-level study

Employee resilience is of great significance for organizations to resist pressures, overcome crises, and achieve sustainable development. However, existing research has largely failed to explore its situational triggers. Drawing on social information processing theory and social exchange theory, a c...

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Published inFrontiers in psychology Vol. 13; p. 938878
Main Authors Li, Xu, Zhang, Jianyu
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Frontiers Media S.A 09.09.2022
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authentic leadership
cross-level effect
employee resilience
error management climate
perceived insider status
Psychology
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Summary:Employee resilience is of great significance for organizations to resist pressures, overcome crises, and achieve sustainable development. However, existing research has largely failed to explore its situational triggers. Drawing on social information processing theory and social exchange theory, a cross-level study was conducted to theorize the underlying mechanisms through which authentic leadership facilitates employee resilience. Based on a two-wave time-lagged design, the data were obtained from 85 team leaders and 417 employees in China. The results of the cross-level model showed that authentic leadership was positively related to employee resilience. Perceived insider status and error management climate both played a partial mediating role in linking authentic leadership and employee resilience. Error management climate positively moderated the relationship between perceived insider status and employee resilience. This paper not only contributes to revealing the cross-level effect of authentic leadership on employee resilience but also provides some managerial practices.
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This article was submitted to Organizational Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
Edited by: Katarzyna Piwowar-Sulej, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland
Reviewed by: Saeed Siyal, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China; Guanglei Zhang, Wuhan University of Technology, China
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.938878