...Nan Hou; Qi Nie; Xiuli Jing Purpose Ambidextrous leadership has been increasingly recognized for its adverse outcomes. This study aims to extend previous studies by investigating how ambidextrous leadership induces employee psychological uncertainty, which subsequently decreases job satisfaction...

...Martha C. Andrews; David D. Dawley Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of supervisor bottom-line mentality on subordinates’ frustration and subsequent attitudes (turnover intention, affective commitment and job satisfaction) and the moderating role of coworker support...

...Ziyu Liu; Hung Wong Purpose This research aims at examining how authentic leadership impacts social workers' withdrawal behaviors through two intermediate mechanisms: sense of calling and job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional survey was distributed among social...

...Joather Alwali; Wafaa Alwali Purpose This paper examines the effect of job satisfaction on job performance among physicians in Iraq's public hospitals. It also determines the mediating role of job satisfaction on the relationship between emotional intelligence and job performance. It further...

...Bradley G. Winton Purpose Limited research has been devoted to the entanglement of emotions between leaders and followers (i.e. emotional congruence) and how these emotions may be altering job satisfaction. Current research hints that a leader's emotional intelligence (EI) directly influences...

...Syed Haider Khalil; Syed Mohsin Ali Shah; Syed Majid Khalil Purpose The current study aimed to investigate how perceived human capital sustainability leadership (HCSL) affects work outcomes (i.e. work engagement and job satisfaction), specifically through the mediating role of knowledge sharing...

... communication quality, burnout and job satisfaction and empirically tests multiple alternative explanations/paths for the relationship between employee participation and organizational commitment. Design/methodology/approach The data for this study were collected using a cross-sectional online survey of 111...

...Hillman Wirawan; Muhammad Jufri; Abdul Saman Purpose This study aims to investigate the effect of authentic leadership and psychological capital (PsyCap) on work engagement via job satisfaction by employing the job demands-resources (JD-R) model. Design/methodology/approach Participants were...

...Madhurima Mishra; Koustab Ghosh Purpose Drawing on self-determination theory and organizational support theory, the present study explored how two styles of supervisor monitoring, namely, interactional and observational, differently impact job satisfaction and affective organizational commitment...

...Carla Freire; Claudia Bettencourt Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the mediating effect of the work–family conflict in the relation between ethical leadership and job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire was answered by 234 nursing professionals working...

... be contacted at: ronaldbusse@gmx.de ; Lothar Winnen can be contacted at: lw@lotharwinnen.de 20 05 2019 07 01 2020 09 02 2020 16 02 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Construct validation Job satisfaction...

.../methodology/approach The data were collected from 502 employees from six HE institutions. Two measures of organizational outcomes were selected for this study, namely, job satisfaction (JS) and OC. Using structural equation modelling (SEM), the authors tested four alternative models to indicate...

... style (ELS) on employees’ job satisfaction (JS) with a mediating role of Green HRM and psychological safety in health sector organizations. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative methodology was adopted to achieve the aims of this study. Data were collected through pencil/paper questionnaires...

...Aldijana Bunjak; Matej Černe; Sut I Wong Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the (in)congruence of leaders’ and followers’ cognitive characteristics (i.e. pessimism), followers’ identification with a leader and job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach Data from 291 working...

... primarily focused on one type of misfit, overqualification (abilities>demands), leaving the other type, underqualification, unexplored. To address the neglect, this study investigates how perceived underqualification relates to job attitudes (job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and turnover...

... the mediating role of job satisfaction and employee engagement in the SME context. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional survey design was used to gather data from respondents who worked in SMEs (N=202). Exploratory factor analysis was used for dimensionality assessment of the voice measure...

...Won Ho Kim; Young-An Ra; Jong Gyu Park; Bora Kwon Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating role of burnout (i.e. exhaustion, cynicism, professional inefficacy) in the relationship between job level and job satisfaction as well as between job level and task performance...

...Shu-sien Liao; Da-chian Hu; Yu-Chun Chung; Li-Wen Chen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between leader-member exchange (LMX), job satisfaction (JS), life satisfaction (LS), and psychological capital (PC) for employee relation management. Design/methodology...

...Courtney Cronley; Youn kyoung Kim Purpose The purpose of this paper is to advance the knowledge base by testing the hypothesis that job satisfaction mediates the relationship between perceived organizational culture and intentions to turnover, and that employee characteristics moderate...

...-visit the construct validity of the servant leadership questionnaire developed by Barbuto and Wheeler (2006) and investigate the relationship between servant leadership and job satisfaction under a multilevel framework. Design/methodology/approach The survey data was obtained from a sample of 2,089...