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Simões, L. & Duarte, A. P. (2023). How responsible leadership relates to individual performance: The sequential mediation of affective commitment and individual creativity. ICEBRS 2023:  International Conference on Economics and Business Roads to Sustainability, Book of abstracts. 54-54

L. M. Simões and A. P. Baltasar,  "How responsible leadership relates to individual performance: The sequential mediation of affective commitment and individual creativity", in ICEBRS 2023:  Int. Conf. on Economics and Business Roads to Sustainability, Book of abstracts, Coimbra, pp. 54-54, 2023

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TI  - How responsible leadership relates to individual performance: The sequential mediation of affective commitment and individual creativity
T2  - ICEBRS 2023:  International Conference on Economics and Business Roads to Sustainability, Book of abstracts
AU  - Simões, L.
AU  - Duarte, A. P.
PY  - 2023
SP  - 54-54
CY  - Coimbra
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AB  - For the past decade, there has been a growing interest in responsible leadership, as a way to answer to
the social, environmental, and political scandals as well as to make the stakeholders trust their
organizations and leaders (Carroll & Shabana, 2010; Friedland & Jain, 2022). Responsible leadership
(RL) has been defined as “a relational and ethical phenomenon that occurs in social processes of
interaction with those who affect or are affected by leadership and have a stake in the purpose and vision
of the leadership relationship” (Maak & Pless, 2006, p. 103). This means that a responsible leader
conceivably shifts the way organizations perceive and are accountable for their stakeholders, and bring
change in a societal level, while maintaining the achievement of economic goals. Despite the interest in
the topic, there is a lack of research regarding the impact of RL on an individual level of analysis. Taking
this into account, this study focuses in understand the impact of RL on behaviors and attitudes of the
main stakeholder, the employees (Haque et al., 2018, 2021a; Miska & Mendenhall, 2018; Voetglin et al.,
2012, 2020). Previous research has identified a positive and significant relationship between RL and
individual performance (IP; e.g., Lin et al., 2020), affective commitment (AC; e.g., Afsar et al., 2020;
Haque et al., 2018, 2021a) and individual creativity (IC; e.g., Castro-González et al., 2019). However, to
our knowledge, studies that incorporated these four constructs on the same model are inexistent,
contributing for the originality of this research. To test the proposed research model, a cross-sectional
correlational quantitative study based on an electronic survey to workers was done (n=284). To control
for common method bias, the Harman single-factor and marker variable techniques were used (Podsakoff
et al., 2003). The results from multiple regression analysis indicated a significant relationship between
RL and IP. Furthermore, the indirect effect of AC on the relationship between RL and IP is significant,
indicating that RL indirectly influences IP through the promotion of AC. However, the indirect effect of IC
on the relationship between RL and IP is not significant, indicating that in this sample RL does not
indirectly influence IP by increasing IC at work. As for the third indirect effect, referring to the sequential
effect of AC and IC in the relationship between RL and IP, it was significant. This indicates that RL
contributes to strengthening the subordinates’ AC to the organization, which increases their IC at work,
which, in turn, reinforces their IP. The direct effect of RL on IP is no longer significant when the mediators
are present, so there is a full mediation effect. The results obtained are convergent with the results found
by previous literature regarding the direct effects between RL and both IP and AC. However, contrary to
expectations, the results indicate that RL does not directly affect IC, making the mediating effect not
possible (cf. Castro-González et al., 2019). More research is needed to better understand this issue. The
results also indicate that the relationship between RL and IP can be sequentially explained by both AC
and IC. Despite the previous literature confirming these direct effects, the present study adds to literature
by analyzing the constructs’ sequential effects. The implications for practice and theory will be discussed.
ER  -