TITLE:
Leader Group Prototypicality and Employee Well-Being: The Mediate Effect of Group Commitment and the Moderate Effect of Openness
AUTHORS:
Xinxing Guo
KEYWORDS:
Leader Group Prototypicality, Employee Well-Being, Group Commitment, Openness
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.7 No.4,
April
26,
2016
ABSTRACT: According
to the social identity Theory, leadership group prototypicality have an
important effect in employee’s group identity, work attitude and employee
well-being. In this article, we explore the mechanism between leadership group
prototypicality and employee well-being to understand how leadership group
prototypicality works. We had a sample of 336 employees to test our hypothesis
in communication carriers in Guangdong. We used the longitudinal survey and
collected the data in three different time point. At last, regression method
was used to analyze the data. The results showed that: 1) leadership group prototypicality
group could predict employee well-being; 2) mediating effect of group
commitment was proud between leadership group prototypicality and employee
well-being; 3) moderating effects of openness were found upon the relationship
between leadership group prototypicality and group commitment. Finally, this
study proposed management practice for leadership group prototypicality, and
proposed future research prospects.