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Gender moderating role in the relationship between leader humility and employee psychological empowerment

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: The gender difference in leadership and subordinates' empowerment has been a controversial topic studied in several countries.This study examines how gender moderates the relationship between the perceived leader humility and the subordinate psychological empowerment in a country that scores high in the power distance index.Four dyads were studied considering leader gender, male or female, and subordinate gender: M-M, F-M, M-F, F-F.Four hypotheses were tested with a questionnaire applied to 253 MBA students in Ecuador.Multi-group analysis was used with the bootstrapping technique.It was found that gender had a significant moderating effect in three of the studied relationships, being the M-M and F-M dyads the ones that presented the highest correlations.The results showed that male subordinates value humility attributes in their leaders, whether male or female, while the relationship was not significant for the F-F dyad.

Source: International Journal of Management Practice

DOI: 10.1504/ijmp.2025.143115

Authors: Marjorie Noboa, Ricardo M. Pino

Institution: Peruvian University of Applied Sciences

Language: English

Topic: Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior

Subfield: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Decent work and economic growth, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4405000150

FWCI: 0.516

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