An Empirical Study On The Relationship Between Leadership Humility And Employee Performance

In recent years,along with the turmoil of the operating environment,the complexity and variability of operations have become increasingly prominent,the effectiveness of leadership and how to motivate employees to produce higher work performance have become the core elements which help companies to stand out from the competition.As a new leadership style,leadership humility got more attention from more and more scholars.Based on the perspectives of social influence theory,social exchange theory,and interpersonal communication theory,this paper adopts the method of empirical research,discusses the effectiveness of leadership humility and the impact and mechanism of leadership humility on employee performance in corporate practice with a localized background in China,focusing on the mediating role of employees’ trust in leadership and the moderating role of psychological privilege.In this study,a multi-source,multi-time point questionnaire survey method was used to obtain valid sample data of 39 leaders and their 204 direct subordinates.After data analysis,the theoretical model proposed in this study is tested.Research results show:(1)Leadership humility has positive influence on employee’s trust in leadership;(2)Employee’s trust in leadership has positive influence on employee job performance;(3)Employee’s trust in leadership plays mediating role between leadership humility and employee performance;(4)Psychological privilege has a positive moderating effect on the relationship between leader humility and trust in leaders,that means,compared with a low sense of psychological privilege,when employees have a high sense of psychological privilege,the positive correlation between leader humility and trust in leaders relationship is stronger;(5)Psychological privilege moderates the indirect effect of leadership humility on employee performance through trust in leadership.Specifically,this indirect effect is stronger for employees with higher(compared with lower)psychological privilege.