TITLE:
The Impact of Family Supportive Supervisor Behavior on Employee’s Proactive Behavior: A Study of a Moderated Mediating Effect
AUTHORS:
Panting Chen
KEYWORDS:
Family Supportive Supervisor Behavior, Employee’s Proactive Behavior, Affective Commitment, Power Distance, Social Exchange Theory
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.7 No.7,
July
19,
2019
ABSTRACT: Based on the theory of social exchange, this study attempts to probe the
mechanism of the impact of the family supportive supervisor behavior on employee’s proactive behavior, especially to
explore the mediating role of the affective commitment and the moderating role
of the power distance in Chinese organizational context. After analyzing the
samples collected from 305 employees, we found that: family supportive supervisor behavior has a significantly positive
effect on employee’s proactive behavior; affective commitment plays a partial
mediating role between family supportive supervisor behavior and employee’s proactive
behavior; meanwhile, power distance moderates the relationship between family
supported supervisory behavior and affective commitment, and further moderates
the indirect relationship between family supported supervisory behavior and
employee’s proactive behavior through affective commitment. That is, the lower
the employees’ power distance is, the stronger the mediating effect of affective
commitment becomes.