Humble Leadership And Subordinate Job Engagement:the Mediating Role Of Career Growth And The Moderating Role Of Career Commitment

The VUCA era has intensified the enterprises’ sense of competition and crisis.If an enterprise wants to "settle down" in an external environment full of uncertainty and variability.It can no longer rely solely on the intelligence of the company’s leaders,but also requires every employee to devote himself wholeheartedly to contribute to the development and growth of the company.This also puts forward higher requirements for managers’ leadership behavior and employees’ active behavior.Because the humble leadership style is more suitable for the needs of new employees.It has attracted a series of discussions and research by researchers,but there is still a lack of empirical research.Secondly,more and more managers are also aware of the importance of employees’ work engagement.Without employees’ engagement,the effectiveness of leadership will also be affected.The two are jointly influenced and promoted.However,at present,the work engagement of humble leaders to employees needs to be further explored.Based on this,this paper attempts to establish a new theoretical model to explore the relationship between humble leadership and employees’work engagement under the boundary condition of career commitment,as well as the intermediary role of career growth.So as to further understand the influence mechanism of humble leadership on subordinates’ work engagement.Combined with literature review,theoretical derivation and empirical data test research methods,this study conducted a questionnaire survey on 39 enterprise leaders and their 211 subordinates at time points,and made an empirical analysis on the paired data collected.The results show that humble leadership has a positive impact on career growth,while the positive predictive relationship between humble leadership and work engagement is mediated by career growth,while career commitment has a negative regulatory effect on the direct impact between humble leadership and employee career growth,At the same time,career commitment also negatively regulates the indirect impact of humble leadership on employees’work engagement through career growth.By introducing career growth and career commitment as mediating and moderating variables,this study further enriches the understanding of the impact of humble leadership and confirms the value of employees’ work engagement.In terms of management practice,based on the verification results that humble leaders have a positive predictive effect on employees’ work engagement.Enterprise leaders should establish a sense of humility,and choose leaders with humility potential as much as possible when recruiting managers.Secondly,as an enterprise leader,we should also pay attention to the needs of employees for their own career growth,and provide employees with as many opportunities and platforms for growth as possible.