Does Participative Leadership Matters in Employees’ Outcomes During COVID-19? Role of Leader Behavioral Integrity

Muhammad Usman; Muhammad Usman; Usman Ghani; Usman Ghani; Usman Ghani; Jin Cheng; Tahir Farid; Tahir Farid; Tahir Farid; Sadaf Iqbal

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.646442

Frontiers in Psychology (May 2021)

Does Participative Leadership Matters in Employees’ Outcomes During COVID-19? Role of Leader Behavioral Integrity

Muhammad Usman,
Muhammad Usman,
Usman Ghani,
Usman Ghani,
Usman Ghani,
Jin Cheng,
Tahir Farid,
Tahir Farid,
Tahir Farid,
Sadaf Iqbal

Affiliations

Muhammad Usman: Department of Business Administration, Iqra National University, Peshawar, Pakistan
Muhammad Usman: School of Management, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Usman Ghani: Department of Business Administration, Iqra University, Karachi, Pakistan
Usman Ghani: School of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Usman Ghani: Department of Applied Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Jin Cheng: School of Management, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Tahir Farid: School of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Tahir Farid: Department of Applied Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Tahir Farid: Department of Psychology, Foundation University Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Sadaf Iqbal: Department of Psychology, Foundation University Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.646442
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12

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The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has badly affected the social, physical, and emotional health of workers, especially those working in the healthcare sectors. Drawing on social exchange theory, we investigated the effects of participative leadership on employees’ workplace thriving and helping behaviors among frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, we examined the moderating role of a leader’s behavioral integrity in strengthening the relationship between participative leadership, and employees’ workplace thriving and helping behaviors. By using a two-wave time-lagged design and data collected from 244 healthcare workers, a moderated hierarchal regression was implemented to test the proposed hypotheses. As hypothesized, participative leadership predicted employees’ workplace thriving and helping behaviors. The leader’s behavioral integrity strengthened the relationship between participative leadership and employees’ thriving and moderated the relationship between participative leadership helping behaviors. Implications for research, theory, and practice are discussed.

Published in Frontiers in Psychology

ISSN: 1664-1078 (Online)
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Philosophy. Psychology. Religion: Psychology
Website: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology

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