Journal of Northeastern University(Natural Science) ›› 2025, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (2): 136-144.DOI: 10.12068/j.issn.1005-3026.2025.20230269

• Management Science • Previous Articles    

Relationship Among Secure-Base Leadership, Employee Work Engagement and Proactive Innovation Behaviors

Chun-hong ZHU, Ya-qi CUI, Jia-min LI(), Meng-yu MAO   

  1. School of Business Administration,Northeastern University,Shenyang 110169,China.
  • Received:2023-09-15 Online:2025-02-15 Published:2025-05-20
  • Contact: Jia-min LI

Abstract:

According to the theory of social exchange, the longitudinal survey data of 445 employees for three months was analyzed to deeply understand the relationship among secure-base leadership, employee work engagement and employees’ proactive innovation behaviors. The results showed that secure-base leaders can actively promote employees’ proactive innovation behaviors, who can anticipate employee engagement for a certain period, and work engagement will also drive employees to actively innovate at a specific stage in the future. Similarly, employees’ proactive innovation behaviors will also affect secure-base leadership, and employees work engagement will promote the change of secure-base leadership styles at a specific stage in the future. These conclusions both expand the field of secure-base leadership and provide guidance for organizations to promote employee’s proactive innovation behaviors.

Key words: secure-base leadership, work engagement, proactive innovation behavior, cross lagged research

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