Leading against gender stereotypes: the positively deviant effect of female leaders’ personal need for structure on average team member performance

Wang, Zheng; Mao, Jih‐Yu; Zhang, Ye; Liu, Shengming

doi:10.1007/s12144-020-01227-9

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“…Amongst seven relevant articles, need-structure's role in employee-leader interactions was most frequently researched. Wang et al (2021) found that female leaders with greater need-structure more effectively stimulated team performance. Kuo et al (2018) observed that employees were more proactive under supervisors with high need-structure.…”

Section: Indian Teleworkers' Well-being/ill-beingmentioning

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Vigour and exhaustion for employees working from home: the mediating role of need for structure satisfaction

Alok

Kumar

Banerjee

2022

IJM

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PurposeCOVID-19 placed millions of employees under work-from-home/telework. Employers intend extending telework for the long-term, anticipating business benefits. But the benefits are impacted by employees' well-being/ill-being, which is affected by the satisfaction of psychological needs. In turn, need satisfaction is influenced by employees' personal/job attributes. As work-from-home's blended environment disrupts routines, the satisfaction of the psychological need for structure or routines was examined in this study, along with the effect of personal/job attributes.Design/methodology/approachCross-section primary data were collected from 500 teleworking information technology employees from India and analysed using partial least squares structural equation modelling. Vigour and exhaustion represented well-being and ill-being. Telework self-efficacy, standardised job, technology assistance and supervisor social support were the determinants or personal/job attributes. Need for structure satisfaction was the mediator.FindingsTelework self-efficacy, technology assistance and supervisor social support were positively associated with structure satisfaction. In turn, structure satisfaction was related positively with vigour and negatively with exhaustion, and thus mediated between personal/job attributes and vigour/exhaustion. Standardised job did not affect vigour, exhaustion or structure satisfaction.Originality/valueNeed for structure is mostly studied as a trait, with implications of greater/lesser preference for structure examined. However, this work acknowledges structure as a basic ubiquitous need. Everyone needs some structure. Hence, need for structure is researched from the novel perspective of its satisfaction. This paper also uniquely combines job demands–resources model which identifies personal/job attributes, with concepts of epistemic which posit the need for structure.

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Section: Indian Teleworkers' Well-being/ill-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Vigour and exhaustion for employees working from home: the mediating role of need for structure satisfaction

Alok

Kumar

Banerjee

2022

IJM

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“…We account for the PNS as an individual disposition that filters the impact of leader humor trickling down to pro-social motivation and subsequently to the indirect effect on IWB (Chen et al ., 2022). A PNS is a personality trait where an individual prefers clarity and order (Wang et al. , 2021).…”

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“…Pro-social motivation encourages innovative behavior by increasing cognitive flexibility, positive affect and risk-taking (Batson, 2022). However, the empirical evidence linking pro-social motivation to IWB is still equivocal (Wang et al. , 2021).…”

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Is leader humor a discursive resource for predicting innovative behavior? Examining the role of pro-social motivation and personal need for structure in hospitality industry

Khattak,

Irshad,

Um-e-Rubbab

2024

LODJ

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PurposeThis research aims to extend the research on humorous leadership and the hospitality industry by using the theoretical framework of affective events theory (AET). This research aims to close this gap by recognizing that leaders' humor may inspire pro-social motivation in tourism workers and can harness the ability of employees to offer innovative ideas. The effect of leaders' humor on employees’ pro-social motivation is moderated by the personal need for structure (PNS).Design/methodology/approachA multi-source time-lagged design was employed in this research. The researchers used survey instruments to collect data from frontline employees and their immediate supervisors working in Pakistan’s two- to five-star hotels. The current study considers 279 useable responses and tested them through Hayes process macros.FindingsResults show that humorous leadership has a significant direct impact on the innovative work behavior (IWB) of hotel employees. Pro-social motivation significantly mediates the relationship between humorous leadership and IWB. Further, the PNS significantly buffers the relationship between humorous leadership and pro-social motivation.Practical implicationsFindings are vital for hotel managers to adopt a more flexible leadership style to promote the pro-social motivation and IWBs of hotel employees.Originality/valueThis is one of the first studies to use pro-social motivation to explain the relationship between humorous leadership and creative work behaviors. Employees' individual needs for structure have also been utilized as a novel boundary condition. The results are essential for hotel managers to adopt a more adaptable leadership style to encourage the staff’s pro-social motivation and creative work behaviors.

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Leading against gender stereotypes: the positively deviant effect of female leaders’ personal need for structure on average team member performance

Cited by 2 publications

References 54 publications

Vigour and exhaustion for employees working from home: the mediating role of need for structure satisfaction

Vigour and exhaustion for employees working from home: the mediating role of need for structure satisfaction

Is leader humor a discursive resource for predicting innovative behavior? Examining the role of pro-social motivation and personal need for structure in hospitality industry

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