Mechanisms of knowledge workers’ adaptive perfectionism on taking charge

Abstract

Purpose This study aims to explore the mechanisms of adaptive perfectionism on employees’ taking charge (TC), the mediating role of work family enrichment and the moderating role of perceived organizational support (OS) in the relationship between adaptive perfectionism and employees’ TC. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on 305 knowledge workers working in diverse organizations in China to examine the hypotheses. Findings The results showed that adaptive perfectionism had a significant positive effect on employees’ TC. Both directions of work-family enrichment (WFE) and family-work enrichment (FWE) play a mediating role between adaptive perfectionism and employees’ TC. Perceived OS moderates the relationship between WFE/FWE and employees’ TC. Perceived OS moderates the indirect effects of adaptive perfectionism on employees’ TC through WFE and FWE. Originality/value This study explores the impact of adaptive perfectionism on employees’ TC, expands the scope of existing perfectionism research, enriches the research on adaptive perfectionism outcome variables and provides evidence and reference for follow-up research.

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“…The study's second hypothesis is related to the relationship between workplace incivility and psychological detachment and it has been identified that workplace incivility significantly correlated with Perfectionist leaders psychological detachment. The victims of a leader's incivility detach themselves from work because of their ego depletion (Wei and Zhang, 2022). Employees who encounter uncivil behavior from their leaders psychologically detach themselves from work-related activities (Anjum et al, 2021).…”