Emotional Leadership On Employees' Knowledge Sharing Behavior: Moderated Mediation Model Test

Emotional leadership refers to a leadership style that the leaders use emotional contagion and strategies to manage group members' emotion actively or passively,and it takes the emotional leadership behavior as the core.This research started from the new style of leadership and constructed two moderated mediation models in which perceived organizational support mediated the relationship between emotional leadership and knowledge sharing behavior,and this mediation effect was moderated by consciousness of social face.A sample of 412 employees was involved in the study to complete emotional leadership behavior questionnaire,perceived organizational support questionnaire,consciousness of social face scale,and knowledge sharing behavior questionnaire.The results indicated that:(1)encouraging leading behavior has positive effect on employees' knowledge sharing behavior;majesty leadership behavior has negative effect on employees' knowledge sharing behavior.(2)encouraging leading behavior has positive effect on perceived organizational support;majesty leadership behavior has negative effect on perceived organizational support.(3)perceived organizational support has positive effect on employees' knowledge sharing behavior.(4)perceived organizational support played partial mediating effect between encouraging leading behavior and knowledge sharing behavior;the desire to gain face moderated this mediation effect and it moderated the second path of the mediation.(5)perceived organizational support played partial mediating effect between majesty leadership behavior and knowledge sharing behavior;the desire to gain face moderated this mediation effect and it moderated the second path of the mediation.