The mediating effect of family work balance and psychological capital on the relationship between leadership style and teachers' job performance

Abstract

Most scholars have studied the relationship between university managers' leadership style and teachers' job performance. But few scholars have studied the mediating variables between them. This paper aims to construct a conceptual framework which explains the relationship between Leadership style of higher vocational colleges in China, teacher's job performance, family-work balance and psychological capital based on Transformational Leadership Style Theory, Human Relations Theory and Conservation of Resources Theory (COR). This paper adopts content analysis and multidisciplinary literature review, mainly involving transformational leadership style, inclusive leadership style, family-work balance and psychological capital. Based on previous scholars' research on leadership style and teachers' work performance, this paper establishes a model, which involves psychological capital and family work balance as mediating variables. At the same time, gender and marital status were used as moderators. Based on the research results and literature review of previous scholars, it can be found that Inclusive leadership style and Transformational leadership style have a positive relationship with the job performance of college teachers. The leadership style of college administrators has a positive impact on the psychological capital of college teachers. The leadership style of college administrators has a positive to the relationship between college teachers' family-work balance is positive. College teachers' psychological capital to job performance is positive. College teachers' family-work balance relationship to job performance is positive. Therefore, family work balance and teachers' psychological capital mediate the relationship between leadership style and teacher's job performance. Gender moderates the relationship between transformational leadership style and Job Performance, and the relationship between family -work balance and transformational leadership style, the relationship between family -work balance and job performance. It also moderates the psychological capital and job performance.