Feel at Ease and Revitalize the Company: Influencing Mechanism of Inclusive Leadership to Employees’ Intrapreneurship

doi:10.12068/j.issn.1005-3026.2023.07.018

Abstract

Abstract: Based on the social cognitive theory， the influencing mechanism of inclusive leadership on employees’ intrapreneurship was interpreted， especially the mediating effect of employees’ psychological security between inclusive leadership and employees’ intrapreneurship， and the contingency effect of employees’ entrepreneurial proclivity between employees’ psychological security and their intrapreneurship. Based on 179 pieces of 3-stage survey data， Mplus 7.0 software was used to test the hypothesis using path analysis， Bootstrap analysis， simple slope test and other methods. The results showed that inclusive leadership has a significant positive impact on employees’ intrapreneurship， inclusive leadership has a significant positive impact on employees’ psychological security， and employees’ psychological security has a significant positive mediation effect between inclusive leadership and employees’ intrapreneurship. Employees’ entrepreneurial proclivity significantly positively moderates the impact of employees’ psychological security on employees’ intrapreneurship.

Key words: intrapreneurship; inclusive leadership; psychological security; entrepreneurial proclivity; social cognitive theory

CLC Number:

JIA Jian-feng， ZHANG Li-teng， LIU Zhi. Feel at Ease and Revitalize the Company: Influencing Mechanism of Inclusive Leadership to Employees’ Intrapreneurship[J]. Journal of Northeastern University(Natural Science), 2023, 44(7): 1049-1056.

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