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Employees’ improvisational behavior: Exploring the role of leader grit and humility
Journal Title
Human Performance
Year (definitive publication)
2022
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
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Abstract
In spite of a growing interest for improvisation in organizations, the microfoundations of improvisation have not been theorized yet. Exploring these microfoundations, we study how employees’ psychological capital (PsyCap) acts as a critical cluster of resources to face improvisational challenges and how leaders who convey grit (operationalized as perseverance of effort: Grit-PE), counterbalanced with humility, create conditions to develop those resources. By building upon the conservation of resources and the dual-systems model of self-regulation theories, our empirical studies suggest that the interaction between two leader-conveyed resources (Grit-PE and humility) creates a contextual resource that helps employees develop PsyCap, thus making them more likely to improvise. The positive effect of high Grit-PE in leaders on employees’ improvisation materializes mainly when leaders also are humble.
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Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Psychology - Social Sciences
- Economics and Business - Social Sciences
Funding Records
| Funding Reference | Funding Entity |
|---|---|
| UID/GES/00315/2020 | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| UID/00124/2020 | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| UIDP/04748/2020 | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| PINFRA/22209/2016 | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| UID/GES/00731/2020 | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| UID/ECO/00124/2019 | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
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