Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, 2024, 7(2); doi: 10.25236/AJHSS.2024.070226.
Jialiang He1, Quan Zhou1, Xiaohan Ma1, Xia Qin2
1School of Management, Beijing Union University, Beijing, China
2Graduate Studies Office, Beijing Union University, Beijing, China
With the continuous influx of post-00s employees into the workplace, their character traits of freedom and openness, pursuit of innovation, and emphasis on equality have contributed to the gradual transformation of the workplace atmosphere from the traditional management style based on the leader's power influence to the management style based on the leader's non-power influence. Based on the questionnaire data of 254 post-00s employees, this paper constructs a mediation effect model and explores the relationship among leader empathy, work attitude and work behavior. The results showed that both leader empathy and work attitude had a significant positive effect on work behavior and that work attitude had a mediating effect between leader empathy and work behavior. The findings of the study provide a reference for guiding leaders to manage their employees with the help of empathy, prompting positive work attitudes and stimulating creative work behaviors.
Leader empathy; Post-00s employees; Work attitude; Work behavior
Jialiang He, Quan Zhou, Xiaohan Ma, Xia Qin. Research on the Influence Mechanisms of Leaders' Empathy and Work Attitude on the Work Behavior of Post-00s Employees. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 2: 194-199. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2024.070226.
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