Transformational Leadership And Feedback-seeking Behavior:the Roles Of Intrinsic Motivation,Organizational Virtuousness And Job Complexity

With the development of society and economy,the emergence of knowledge workers,the diversification of labor,the organization of virtualization,the work of the remote,the importance of employee feedback-seeking behavior become increasingly prominent.Feedback-seeking behavior has positive effects on performance.It is important to encourage employees to take the initiative to seek feedback.Feedback-seeking behavior's positive effects have been increasingly valued by academics and practitioners.However,feedback-seeking behavior can be influenced by individual,work and context factors,such mechanism is complex.Although scholars have conducting research on feedback-seeking behavior and proving that leadership can affect employee feedback-seeking behavior,the research on the mechanism is still lack of discussion.Based on such considering,this paper committed to explore what kinds of leadership can promote employee feedback-seeking behavior.Transformational leadership is under discussion for its strong incentives.This paper considers that transformational leadership can promote feedback-seeking behavior by motivating employees' intrinsic motivation.And in the context of high organizational virtuousness,employees conduct more feedback-seeking behavior,and less otherwise.In the context of high job complexity,employees conduct less feedback-seeking behavior,and more otherwise.By investigating 362 employees in China,using SPSS22 and AMOS23 and empirical analysis method,this paper draws the conclusions:(1)transformational leadership has positive effects on feedback-seeking behavior;(2)the relationship between transformational leadership and feedback-seeking behavior is partially mediated by intrinsic motivation;(3)organizational virtuousness positively moderate the relationship between intrinsic motivation and feedback-seeking behavior;(4)job complexity negatively moderate the relationship between intrinsic motivation and feedback-seeking behavior.Innovations:(1)select intrinsic motivation to explore the mechanism black box of transformational leadership and feedback-seeking behavior;(2)selected organizational virtuousness and job complexity,explore the moderation effect on the relationship between intrinsic motivation and feedback-seeking behavior,have positive effects for futher study;(3)explore the impact mechanism of feedback-seeking behavior,enrich related research.