Jinxiu Yang
ABSTRACT
As one of the most important factors influencing employee behaviour, the study of leader anger expression is particularly important. Based on the Chinese cultural context and using a sample of 322 employees, this study constructs a mediation model of leader anger expression affecting employees' work engagement through employees' work well-being in the Chinese organisational context. The results of the study show that: leader anger expression has a negative effect on employees' work engagement; employees' work happiness mediates the relationship between leader anger expression and employees' work engagement in the Chinese organisational context; and employees' work happiness has a significant positive effect on employees' work engagement. This study not only enriches the empirical research findings on leaders' anger expression and work well-being and work engagement in Chinese companies, but also provides some inspiration for organizational managers to improve their emotion expression strategies.
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Index Terms
- How Leaders' Expressions of Anger Affect Employees' Work Engagement: Based on the Mediating Role of Employee Well-being at Work
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