The More Humorous the Leaders are, the More Proactive the Employees will be? The Mediation Role of Emotional Exhaustion

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10.2991/febm-19.2019.70How to use a DOI?

Keywords

leader humor; employee proactive behavior; emotional exhaustion Introduction

Abstract

From the prospective of Conservation of Resources theory, this paper discusses leader humor’s impact on employee proactive behavior and the mediation role of emotional exhaustion in Chinese situation. By building a structural equation model to analyze the field data collected from 175 employees, the empirical results show that leader humor exerts a significantly positive effect on employee proactive behavior and specifically, leader humor will improve employee proactive behavior by reducing employee emotional exhaustion. Chinese leaders are suggested to pay more positive attention to humor’s positive effect and supposed to take advantage of humor to increase employee proactive behaviors in future competition.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hao Jian
AU  - Yongjian Song
PY  - 2019/12
DA  - 2019/12
TI  - The More Humorous the Leaders are, the More Proactive the Employees will be? The Mediation Role of Emotional Exhaustion
BT  - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Economic and Business Management (FEBM 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 301
EP  - 305
SN  - 2352-5428
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DO  - 10.2991/febm-19.2019.70
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