Original Article
Social bonding or depleting? A team-level investigation of leader self-sacrifice on team and leader work engagement
Xingwen Chen,
Yiwei Yuan,
Jun Liu,
Li Zhu,
Zheng Zhu,
Xingwen Chen
Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Search for more papers by this authorYiwei Yuan
School of Business, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
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Jun Liu
School of Business, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
Correspondence should be addressed to Jun Liu, School of Business, Renmin University of China, No. 59 Zhongguancun Street, Beijing 100872, China (email: [email protected]).
Search for more papers by this authorLi Zhu
National School of Development, Peking University, Beijing, China
Search for more papers by this authorZheng Zhu
School of Business, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
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Xingwen Chen,
Yiwei Yuan,
Jun Liu,
Li Zhu,
Zheng Zhu,
Xingwen Chen
Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Search for more papers by this authorYiwei Yuan
School of Business, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
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Jun Liu
School of Business, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
Correspondence should be addressed to Jun Liu, School of Business, Renmin University of China, No. 59 Zhongguancun Street, Beijing 100872, China (email: [email protected]).
Search for more papers by this authorLi Zhu
National School of Development, Peking University, Beijing, China
Search for more papers by this authorZheng Zhu
School of Business, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
Search for more papers by this authorAbstract
The leader self-sacrifice literature has largely drawn on the norm of reciprocity to examine the positive impacts of leader self-sacrifice on employee attitudes and behaviours, but little attention has been paid to the potential negative impacts of leader self-sacrifice on leaders’ own work outcomes. Grounded in social exchange theory and ego depletion theory, our research focuses on why leader self-sacrifice brings about both beneficial and detrimental effects and considers how leader competence shapes these effects. Two field studies were conducted to test our hypotheses. Study 1 explored the underlying mechanisms through which leader self-sacrifice influences team/leader work engagement. Study 2 replicated and extended the findings of Study 1 by further testing the moderating role of leader competence. Our results indicated that team affective commitment to leaders acts as a key mediator of the positive relationship between leader self-sacrifice and team work engagement, and that leader depletion serves as a crucial mechanism underlying the negative relationship between leader self-sacrifice and leader work engagement. Additionally, leader competence affects how team members view self-sacrificing leaders and the extent to which self-sacrificing leaders consume their energy. For competent leaders, the positive influence of leader self-sacrifice on team work engagement (via team affective commitment to leaders) is stronger, and the negative influence of leader self-sacrifice on leader work engagement (via leader depletion) is weaker.
Practitioner points
- To avoid self-sacrificing leaders being seriously depleted, organizations should design activities or training programmes to help leaders replenish self-control resources and, if possible, increase their self-control capacity.
- To encourage team members’ investment in their work, leaders may need to establish psychological attachment and bonds with members to motivate them to repay sacrificial behaviours by fully engaging in the work.
- Organizations can provide systematic training to enhance leader competence to magnify the beneficial impacts and buffer the detrimental impacts of leader self-sacrifice.
Conflicts of interest
All authors declare no conflict of interest.
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Data availability statement
The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions.
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