...Yingsi Yang; Ning Yang; Hui Chen; Xiao-Hua (Frank) Wang Purpose Leader humility is beneficial for employees and organizations. Based on expectancy violations theory (EVT), this study explores the relationship between leader humility and employee proactive behavior, along with the mediating role...

...Mingyan Chen; Xingshan Zheng; Bingqing Wu Purpose Integrating the reciprocity and equity lenses, this study explores the curvilinear relationship between leader humility and employee organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) by introducing psychological entitlement and perspective taking...

... studies focused on the influence of leader humility on individual and team outcomes, but little attention has been paid to organizational outcomes. This research extends the implications of leader humility to inter-firm relationships. Moreover, this paper explores the boundary conditions of the influence...

...Jiang Xu; Jih-Yu Mao; Ye Zhang Purpose Although leader humility is generally considered a positive leadership behavior, this study aims to examine when the positive influences of leader humility are likely weakened. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from a two-wave survey...

...Guo Qiuyun; Wenxing Liu; Kong Zhou; Jianghua Mao Purpose The authors examined the relationship between leader humility and employee organizational deviance. They also tested the mediating effects of personal sense of power and the moderating effects of organizational identification...

...Jie Zhong; Li Zhang; Ping Li; Duo Zhen Zhang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between leader humility and employee well-being. Based on social information processing (SIP) theory and previous literature concerning leader humility, this paper identifies employee...

...Ling Yuan; Leilei Zhang; Yanhong Tu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how leader humility affects the engagement of employees in creative processes, using perceived organizational support (POS) as a mediator and leader competence as a moderator. Design/methodology/approach...