The Double-edged Sword Effect of Employee Taking Charge on Work-home Relationship
In today's increasingly turbulent and competitive environment,most companies have experienced stalled or stagnant growth.Only change can achieve sustainable growth.As a change-oriented work behavior,employees'taking charge behavior has received much attention because it benefits organizations in many ways such as increasing organization effectiveness or en-hancing business performance.However,few studies have explored the impact of taking charge on employees'family lives,es-pecially the possible negative effects.Therefore,it is necessary to study the double-edged sword effect of employees'taking charge on work-home relationship,and to explore its mechanisms and boundary conditions.Based on the work-home resources model,this study explores the double-edged sword effect of employees'taking charge on work-home relationship in terms of both resource depletion and resource gain.We proposed personal accomplishment and job stress as the mediating mechanism of the relationship between taking charge and work-home conflict/work-home enrich-ment,and also suggested LMX as the boundary condition.To test the proposed theoretical model,we conducted a three-wave field study and achieved 314 valid samples from employees of four domestic Chinese firms in Jiangsu Province.Tested our theoretical hypotheses by Spss 26.0 and Mplus 7.4 software.The results show that:First,employees'taking charge is positively related to both job stress and personal accomplishment.Second,personal accomplishment mediates the relationship between employees'taking charge and work-home conflict/work-home enrichment,but job stress only mediates the effects of taking charge on work-home conflict rather than work-home en-richment.Third,LMX played a moderating role in the relationship between taking charge and personal accomplishment,and further moderated the indirect effect of taking charge on employees'work-home enrichment via personal accomplishment.The results extend research on the consequences of taking charge behavior from the work-home relationship perspective,responding to the academic call for more attention to research on the negative and double-edged effects of taking charge beha-vior.In addition,it provides a more comprehensive explanation of the influencing mechanism of employees'taking charge on work-home relationship and extends the empirical literature in the field of LMX as a boundary condition.The results of the study have some practical value for promoting organizational change and employee work-home harmony to achieve synergist-ic growth of both individuals and organizations.
taking chargework-home conflictwork-home enrichmentleader-member exchangework-home resources model
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