TY  - EJOU
AU  - Li, Mingze 
AU  - Ye, Huili 
AU  - Zhang, Guanglei 

TI  - 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
T2  - International Journal of Mental Health Promotion

PY  - 2018
VL  - 20
IS  - 3
SN  - 2049-8543

AB  - 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.
KW  - Narcissism leadership; hindrance stress; self-monitoring; OCB-S; transactional theory of stress

DO  - 10.32604/IJMHP.2018.010806