Leaders’ Emotions and Followers’ Behaviors: A New Perspective with Perceived Emotional Sincerity
Journal Title: International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences - Year 2019, Vol 8, Issue 9
Abstract
Leaders’ emotions management plays a significant role to shape the followers’ behavioral outcomes, therefore, leaders try to regulate their emotions at the workplace with a view to influencing their followers’ behaviors. Moreover, emotional sincerity is a relatively new concept and this study took the first attempt to give insight understanding and clear picture about the role of leaders’ emotional sincerity in emotions management studies. The purpose of this study is to identify the new perspective of perceived emotional sincerity while discussing the role of leaders’ emotional labor strategies to shape the followers’ behaviors and this stream line of research is totally ignored in previous studies. This study examined the role of leaders’ emotional labor strategies (surface acting & deep acting) towards followers’ behaviors by concentrating on the moderating role of followers’ perceived emotional sincerity. The study is descriptive and quantitative in nature. Data have been collected by 200 dyads (Leader-Follower) from Malaysian NGOs by applying simple random sampling technique. Scales validation has been checked by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) by using Smart PLS. Moreover, the structural equation modeling technique (SEM) has been used to test the hypotheses. Findings revealed that leaders’ surface acting is negatively and significantly related to followers’ behaviors (emotional engagement & positive emotional reactions). Moreover, results also enlightened that leaders’ deep acting has a positive and significant association with followers’ behaviors (emotional engagement & positive emotional reactions). Additionally, followers’ perceived emotional sincerity also significantly moderates on the relationship of leaders’ emotional labor strategies and followers’ behaviors. This study gives new direction for future studies to empirical test the ignored role of leaders’ emotional sincerity in emotions related studies.
Authors and Affiliations
Qasim Ali Nisar, Noraini Othman, Bidayatul Akmal Binti Kamil Mustafa
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- EP ID EP569419
- DOI 10.6007/IJARBSS/v8-i9/4707
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