The Impact Of Inclusive Leadership On Employee Taking-Charge Behavior

In the face of a constantly changing internal and external environment,companies must continue to change,which not only requires employees to perform efficiently within their areas of responsibility,but also expects them to respond to challenges and adopt more proactive behaviors in order to build the core competencies of the organization.Therefore employee taking-charge behavior have become one of the hot topics of interest in human resource management.Although many studies have explored the direct or indirect links between leadership styles and positive behaviors such as employee proactive behaviors,most of the research on inclusive leadership has focused on the effects on employees’ innovative behaviors,with less research on the relationship between inclusive leadership and employee taking-charge behavior.Moreover,as a specific form of relational leadership,the research on inclusive leadership is still in its developmental stage,which makes it necessary to study the mechanism of action between inclusive leadership and employee taking-charge behavior.After combing through a large body of literature on inclusive leadership and employee taking-charge behavior,this study constructs a cross-level model based on conservation of resources theory and affective events theory,introducing psychological capital as a mediating variable and team emotional climate as a moderating variable,to explore the mechanisms of inclusive leadership’s influence on employee taking-charge behavior.Questionnaires were collected by combining online and offline methods,and 266 data from54 teams were obtained by screening and matching employee and leader questionnaires.Firstly,the data were subjected to common methods variance,test on reliability and validity,data aggregation analysis,descriptive statistics and correlation analysis using SPSS and AMOS software respectively.Then,a hierarchical linear model was constructed using HLM software and regression analysis was respectively used to examine the relationship between inclusive leadership and employee taking-charge behavior,the mediating role of psychological capital between inclusive leadership and employee taking-charge behavior,the cross-level moderating role of team emotional climate between inclusive leadership and psychological capital and the mediating effect of being moderated.The study found that:(1)inclusive leadership has a significant positive impact on employee taking-charge behavior,in which the three dimensions of openness,effectiveness and accessibility of inclusive leadership have a significant positive impact on employee taking-charge behavior.(2)inclusive leadership has a significant positive impact on employee psychological capital,in which the three dimensions of openness,effectiveness and accessibility of inclusive leadership have a significant positive impact on employee psychological capital.(3)psychological capital has a significant positive impact on employee taking-charge behavior.(4)psychological capital partially mediates the relationship between inclusive leadership and employee taking-charge behavior,with psychological capital partially mediating the relationship between the dimensions of inclusive leadership and employee taking-charge behavior.(5)team emotional climate positively moderates the impact of inclusive leadership on employees’ psychological capital,and moderates the indirect relationship between inclusive leadership via psychological capital and employee taking-charge behavior.Therefore,the corresponding research implications are given:(1)create an inclusive leadership style and actively influence employee taking-charge behavior.(2)improve employees’ psychological capital level and promote employee taking-charge behavior.(3)pay attention to creating a positive team emotional climate and enhance the psychological capital of employees.This research conclusion complements the influencing factors of employee taking-charge behavior,expands the antecedents of employee taking-charge behavior from the perspective of leadership style,and enriches the research results in the field of leader member exchange.Based on the perspective of positive psychology,this thesis creatively introduces psychological capital variables and emotional climate variables at the team level to explore the specific mechanism between inclusive leadership and employee taking-charge behavior.The research results can be used as a theoretical basis to stimulate employee taking-charge behavior in enterprise management practice.Finally,the study also summarizes the deficiencies in questionnaire design and data collection,and puts forward suggestions for future research,hoping to provide reference for follow-up research.