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How Employees React to a Narcissistic Leader? The Role of Work Stress in Relationship between Perceived Leader Narcissism and Employees’ Organizational Citizenship Behaviors to Supervisor
Mingze Li, Huili Ye, Guanglei Zhang*
School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, China
* Corresponding Author: Guanglei Zhang. Email:
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion 2018, 20(3), 83-97. https://doi.org/10.32604/IJMHP.2018.010806
Abstract
This study aims to understand how leader narcissism predicts
employees’ organizational citizenship behaviors to supervisor (OCB-S). Based on
the transactional model of stress, we argue that perceived leader narcissism
triggers employees’ OCB-S through hindrance stress. We also consider how
employees’ self-monitoring moderates the relationship between perceived leader
narcissism and OCB-S. By collecting data from a matching questionnaire survey
48 leaders and 183 employees, we tested our conceptual model using adopted
hierarchical regression method and plug-in Process. The results showed that
perceived leader narcissism imposed a negative effect on employees’ OCB-S
through hindrance stress. Moreover, we found that self-monitoring moderated the
relationship between perceived leader narcissism and employees’ OCB-S, as well
as the indirect effect of perceived leader narcissism on employees’ OCB-S through
hindrance stress. Specifically, when the level of self-monitoring was low, the
positive relationship between perceived leader narcissism and hindrance stress as
well as the indirect effect of perceived leader narcissism on employees’ OCB-S
through hindrance stress got stronger. When the level of self-monitoring was high,
perceived leader narcissism had a negative effect on hindrance stress, and the
indirect effect of perceived leader narcissism on employees’ OCB-S through
hindrance stress became weaker. We discuss theoretical and practical implications.
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Li, M., Ye, H., Zhang, G. (2018). How Employees React to a Narcissistic Leader? The Role of Work Stress in Relationship between Perceived Leader Narcissism and Employees’ Organizational Citizenship Behaviors to Supervisor.
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 20(3), 83–97. https://doi.org/10.32604/IJMHP.2018.010806
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