... investigates how visionary leadership affects individual career prospects within an organization. At the same time, this paper tests the sequential mediating roles of career optimism and career crafting, and the moderating effect of core self-evaluation. Design/methodology/approach Through a vignette...

... leader career calling served as a catalyst for employee career crafting. The experiment provided causal evidence for the relationship between these two constructs, exhibiting strong internal validity. However, due to the challenges in measuring supervisor–subordinate guanxi and career growth within...