Jiwen Lynda Song

University of Leeds · Division of Management

Integrating insights from team hierarchy literature and shared leadership research, we propose and test a model that illuminates the positive and negative team processes through which shared leadership relates to team creativity. We use a social network lens to examine both shared leadership level (indexed by team density of informal leadership tie...

Purposefully fostering creativity and innovation through stimulating proactivity requires grappling with an apparent trade‐off. On the one hand, organization members need some autonomy to initiate change. On the other hand, managers might want to steer initiatives and retain control over outcomes. The current paper advances recent work on how proac...

Leadership is universally acknowledged as a pivotal subject within both academic discourse and practice. Numerous well-established leadership theories have emerged through research conducted in Western cultures, giving rise to valid inquiries into their relevance in diverse cultural contexts. Given China’s rapid economic growth and pivotal position...

Integrating expectancy violation theory and social exchange theory, we investigate the role of leader traditionality in augmenting the positive effect of servant leadership in promoting follower reciprocation in three studies. In Study 1, we substantiate in an experiment that individuals indeed expect leaders possessing traditional values to be les...

Aim This study intends to investigate whether, how and when service‐oriented high‐performance work systems (SHPWSs) drive nurses' extra‐role service behaviour. Design This was a quantitative cross‐sectional study conducted with matched nurse–patient participants. Method We tested hypotheses using data from 284 nurses and their matched 566 patient...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to test the mechanism of visionary leadership on subordinates' work withdrawal behavior through cognitive strain and psychological contract violation, and also to reveal the possible dark side of visionary leadership. The moderation effects of subordinates' facades of conformity and leader behavioral integrity i...

In this paper, we develop novel theoretical insights regarding employees’ reactions to servant leadership. Drawing on social exchange theory and the servant leadership literature, we propose that the needs–supplies fit between servant leaders and narcissistic employees can urge narcissistic employees to feel more grateful in response to servant lea...

Incivility is a growing concern for researchers and practitioners alike, yet we know little about how the team context is related to the way that employees respond to it. In this study, we examined the role of team mindfulness and its direct and buffering effects on individual-level promotion- and prevention-focused emotional coping. We also examin...

This study uses organizational support theory and broaden-and-build theory to examine the antecedents and consequences of workplace gratitude. Specifically, we explored the moderating role of job satisfaction and the mediating role of gratitude at work, including team error management climate as a predictor and OCBs and creativity as outcome variab...

Research on the relationship between human resource management (HRM) and organizational outcomes has mainly been studied at the organizational level so far. However, HRM scholars acknowledge that employees are the foundation of organizations, and they play an important role in the effect of HRM on employee and organizational outcomes. While researc...

Although organizational crises, particularly the COVID-19 pandemic, are shocks for employees, their expression of gratitude can be viewed as a silver lining. Drawing on social exchange theory and the social functions of emotion perspective, we develop a model that elucidates why and when benefactors who receive gratitude expression can perform bett...

The purpose of this research is to deepen the understanding of how employees react to others' help in a day-to-day context, with a focus on the role of narcissism in employees' prosocial motivation and behaviors. We hypothesize that received help generally enhances employees' prosocial motivation at the daily level, in turn increasing their own beh...

Purpose While the rapid adoption of information communication technologies (ICT) in organizations has been linked with a higher risk of cyberbullying, research on the influence of cyberbullying on interpersonal behaviors in the workplace remains limited. By drawing on the ego-depletion theory and the leader-member exchange (LMX) theory, this resear...

One distinctive feature of leader humility is its facilitation of followers’ development-oriented relational identity. Drawing on relational identity theory, we argue that leader humility, a kind of bottom–up leadership, enhances followers’ multi-foci relational identifications and subsequent multi-foci performance. Furthermore, leader workplace st...

Although extant work has found that employee depletion is associated with less voice behavior, an emerging line of research suggests that depletion may sometimes be associated with more voice behavior. We build on this emerging line of research by establishing when and why employee depletion is associated with more voice behavior on a daily basis....

Innovation is considered essential for today’s organizations to survive and thrive. Researchers have also stressed the importance of leadership as a driver of followers’ innovative work behavior (FIB). Yet despite a large amount of research, three areas remain understudied: (a) the relative importance of different forms of leadership for FIB; (b) t...

Innovation is considered essential for today’s organizations to survive and thrive. Researchers have also stressed the importance of leadership as a driver of followers’ innovative work behavior (FIB). Yet despite a large amount of research, three areas remain understudied: (a) the relative importance of different forms of leadership for FIB; (b) t...

Do leaders who build a sense of shared social identity in their teams thereby protect them from the adverse effects of workplace stress? This is a question that the present paper explores by testing the hypothesis that identity leadership contributes to stronger team identification among employees and, through this, is associated with reduced burno...

This study examines the relationship between leaders’ humility and their career success. We propose that humble leaders are more likely to occupy central positions in their subordinate teams’ voice networks where they improve their own performance and gain favorable reward recommendations. We also argue that in seemingly disadvantageous competitive...

Mindfulness has received increasing attention from scholars and practitioners, and considerable research has demonstrated the intrapersonal effects of mindfulness at work or at home. Research to date, however, has overlooked potential interpersonal effects of mindfulness across the work and family domains. Drawing on the spillover‐crossover model a...

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Poverty has always been a worldwide issue. Although human beings have made great achievements dealing with this problem, the situation of poverty is still startling. Taking the living standard of $1.25 per person per day as extreme poverty, there are 836 million people living in extreme poverty around the world, most of them in developing countries...

Katz centrality is a fundamental concept to measure the influence of a vertex in a social network. However, existing approaches to calculating Katz centrality in a large-scale network are unpractical and computationally expensive. In this article, we propose a novel method to estimate Katz centrality based on graph sampling techniques, which object...

During global pandemic outbreak of COVID-19, wearing face masks has become a focus of debate.1 In this paper, we addressed the cunning nature of COVID-19 and called for the global usage of face masks, especially for people living in low-income and middle-income countries/regions with high population density as well as high-income countries/regions...

Assessing individual's personality traits has important implications in psychology, sociology, and economics. Conventional personality measurement methods were questionnaire-based, which are time-consuming and manpower-expensive. With the pervasive deployment of mobile communication applications, smartphone usage data was found to relate to people'...

Accompanying the rise of the service economy, service-oriented high-performance work systems (SHPWS) have received increasing attention in HR research. However, existing research has predominately focused on the “bright side” of this system by highlighting its benefits to customer service outcomes as organizations hope and expect, while paying less...

Drawing on implicit leadership theory and the mindfulness literature, we propose that perceived authentic leadership mediates the relationship between follower mindfulness and follower well-being. Leader mindfulness plays a moderating role in this process. We validated these hypotheses with the two-wave data from 56 leaders and 275 followers in two...

Although humility is an outstanding characteristic of many beloved and respected leaders, little is understood regarding the effect of leader humility on follower job performance. The current study examines how leader humility affects follower performance. Drawing on the self-determination theory, we suggest that leader humility, via follower harmo...

This study aims to examine the relationship between authentic leadership and employee proactive behavior. Based on self-determination theory, we argue that such a relationship is sequentially mediated by psychological empowerment and core self-evaluations. In addition, political skill plays a moderating role in the third stage. These hypotheses are...

Recent theorizing applying the social identity approach to leadership proposes a four‐dimensional model of identity leadership that centres on leaders’ management of a shared sense of ‘we’ and ‘us’. This research validates a scale assessing this model – the Identity Leadership Inventory ( ILI ). We present results from an international project with...

Complementing prior quantitative and qualitative reviews of the leadership literature, we conduct a bibliometric analysis of leadership articles. Our bibliometric review provides a different perspective by portraying the landscape and developmental trajectory of leadership research over time via co-citation and co-occurrence analyses. Using a scien...

Recent research shows that humility plays a key role in improving lives in a work-setting. In this symposium, we invite a group of active humility researchers to share their latest thoughts and findings. Two studies address how humble leaders affect their subordinates. Wang and colleagues propose and find that humble leaders reduce subordinates’ co...

The importance of workforce diversity has become a salient management concern given that demographic minorities comprise key sources of the workforce and consumers. As a result, some firms created chief diversity officer (CDO) positions to manage workforce diversity. This study takes a multitheoretic approach, drawing upon institutional, resource d...

Intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientations often coexist and can serve important functions. We develop and test a model in which intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientations interact positively to influence personal creativity goal. Personal creativity goal, in turn, has a positive relationship with incremental creativity and an inverte...

Novelty recognition is the crucial starting point for extracting value from the ideas generated by others. In this paper we develop an associative evaluation account for how personal and contextual factors motivate individuals to perceive novelty and creativity. We report 4 studies that systematically tested hypotheses developed from this perspecti...

Psychological contract violation (PCV) is employee negative emotions aroused by employers not delivering their promises. Past studies have used Social Exchange Theory to explain the effects of PCV on employee responses specified in the EVLN (i.e., Exit, Voice, Loyalty and Neglect) model. The present study argues that Activation Theory may also be a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the structure of leader communication style in the context of organizational change. In doing so, the authors intend to shed more light on how leaders can effectively communicate change projects to their subordinates, which is viewed as the key to implementing change initiatives. Design/methodology...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which chief executive officer (CEO) transactional and transformational leader behaviors as well as CEO self-enhancing versus self-transcendent values permeate through the organization to influence middle-level managers. Design/methodology/approach – Using a multi-level longitudinal de...

This paper reviews the insights that research offers on the impact of different leadership styles on innovation. To do so, we develop a framework, structuring research insights into four dimensions: people, means, effects, and goals/outcomes for innovations. Based on this framework, we review publications on: directive and participative leadership,...

This article investigates collective team identification and team member alignment (i.e., the existence of short- and long-term team goals and team-based reward structures) as moderators of the association between task and relationship conflicts. Being indicators of cooperative goal interdependence in teams, both moderators are hypothesized to miti...

To date, employee participation finds very little recognition in China in research as well as in management practice. It seems to fundamentally contradict traditional values in Chinese culture. The effect of employee participation on innovation is completely unknown, not only for China, but also for many other emerging economies. In contrast, emplo...

The recognition of novel ideas is essential for extracting value from the ideas generated by others. Yet little research has focused on what factors influence new idea recognition. We develop an associative evaluations perspective of novelty recognition and report four studies that systematically investigated personal and contextual influences on n...

This paper examines the relationship between abusive supervision and employee task performance through trust in the leader. Drawing on theories of social information processing and resource allocation, we further hypothesized the moderating role of group mean abusive supervision and group performance. A sample of 255 employees in 40 groups in a wor...

Profit sharing plans are vital in the retention and motivation of employees. Due to its importance, the current research examines the status of profit sharing plan adoption by private firms in China. Specifically, we focus on the relationship between the firms¡¯ different employment approaches and their profit sharing plan adoption. By using longit...

The employee–employer relationship is said to be affected by extensive workplace transitions, and yet little is known about how employees make sense of these changes while deciding on their responses to them. Our study investigated two factors, social comparison and the nature of the exchanges, as moderators of the effects of psychological contract...

In this article, we examine the concept of humility among chief executive officers (CEOs) and the process through which it is connected to integration in the top management team (TMT) and middle managers' responses. We develop and validate a comprehensive measure of humility using multiple samples and then test a multilevel model of how CEOs' humil...

According to Bass (1985), charismatic-transformational leadership fosters followers’ willingness to sacrifice (i.e., the readiness to go beyond expectations and transcend self-interests for the good of the organization and the whole). Drawing on an identity perspective, this paper aims to refine the theoretical link between charismatic- transformat...

This paper explores the mediating effect of different types of statuses as a pathway to explain the association between income and happiness in the Chinese context. Using a nationally representative data set from China, this study finds that the association between income and subjective well-being is mediated by the self-perceived status of the ind...

Responding to Jackson and Joshi's (2011) call for specific models of the effects of particular diversity types and against the backdrop of the rising desire for the public expression of religious identities in the workplace (Hicks, 2003), we develop a framework that systematically explores when and how the expression of diverse religious identities...

This paper develops two models to investigate the effect of team leader positive affectivity (PA) on team member turnover intention and team organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), at the individual and team levels, respectively. A two-wave longitudinal study was conducted involving a survey of 58 team leaders and 174 team members in a large Chi...

One of the contexts in which Chinese actors construct (a version) of their self is their region of origin. Chinese are very sentimental concerning their roots. Numerous poems, songs, novels, feature films, etc., have been produced with the home region/town of the author as their main theme. Chinese used to be infrequent travelers. The Daoist ideal...

Official political parlance has it that the planned economy of the first decades of the PRC has been gradually replaced by a market economy from the beginning of the 1980s. However, researchers in this field seem to agree to a high degree that reality is considerably more complicated. Instead of one replacing the other, it seems to be more appropri...

Niu is a typical example of a spin-off type of entrepreneur. The roots of his entrepreneurship are not located in his youth and/or education, but in his previous employment. He got a job in a state owned enterprise and acquired a liking for the work. Dissatisfied by certain changes in the organization, he developed the idea of continuing that busin...

The purpose of this chapter is to construct a working definition of entrepreneurship and research method suiting that definition. To accommodate the readers who are less familiar with recent academic discussions on entrepreneurship, we will start with a brief resume of those discussions, before moving on to our working definition of entrepreneurshi...

Friendship could very well be the most important type of relationship between people. It is not the most intimate one. Relationships between spouses, siblings, etc., could be more tight that many friendships, but from a quantitative point of view, for any normal social actor friendship is by far the most important type of relationship with other pe...

The institution of family is the core of Chinese society. This is a fact that has long been realized by the Chinese who hold the family bonds as sacred and honor them accordingly. The traditional Chinese family has a hierarchical order with the man as the head of the family, the bearer of the family name, who is burdened with the responsibility for...

The protagonist of the life story being analyzed is named Cheng Gong, a village boy who at first went to Beijing in the hope of alleviating his family out of poverty and eventually developed into a migrant renovation entrepreneur in the city through various source of influence.

Nowadays, studying abroad has been a prevailing choice of Chinese students, and English study is regarded as essential by those who are going overseas. Hence there are many Epenglish training institutions established in China, such as New Oriental, New Channel, and Global IELTS, and they are keeping growing. However, these institutions only concent...

The Dutch, and European, business world was cruelly awoken from a dormant state of complacency in November 2010, when a completely unknown, in Europe, that is, Chinese company made a takeover offer for the Dutch cable maker Draka, that exceeded an offer made earlier by an Italian competitor Prysmian (Bloomberg 2010a).

In the previous chapter we have crafted the most basic definition of ‘entrepreneurs’ as people who have opted to derive their income not from employment but from their own enterprise. We then want to study the mechanism that make some people make such a decision. We could probably perform a study like this without spending any time and effort on th...

Mr. Yuan was born in a rural family in Zhangjiagang city of Jiangsu Province. In 1984, he went to Beijing to join the business with his elder brother. Now, he and his wife manage a tailor shop in Huixian store of Renmin University. The tailor shop is not very big, but their business is good. They have a son who is a senior in a college of Beijing....

The Yihai case occupies a special position among the cases used for this study. The fact that Linda Wang is a female entrepreneur makes her a minority among our case entrepreneurs, however, this is not the most salient difference. Wang was already an accomplished entrepreneur, when the enterprise selected for this book was initiated. In that respec...

Meng Lingqun, a 27-year-old man from Xinji, Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, was born in an ordinary rural family, which was not much prosperous. At the age of 18, he came to Beijing alone to earn his life. At first, he worked in a tourism development company, mainly in charge of designing tourism projects. And then, he managed a few stalls by himself...

With the reform and opening up policies, China’s economic has been soaring since the 1980s. At that time of China’s society, there was a kind of all-round development due to the stagnated economy since sixteenth century. Because of the decollectivization of agriculture and the investment on industry, there was a widespread fashion for countryside p...

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2005. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 122-134).