The Effects of Dominance-based and Prestige-based Leadership on Employee Well-being: A Moderated Mediation Model

¹ Guangxi University, Guangxi 530000, China
² Nanning University, Guangxi 530000, China

^* Corresponding author: m@phd.mo

Abstract

In recent years, the research of employee well-being in the field of organizational behavior and human resource management has received extensive attention. Building on the theory of dominance-based and prestige-based leadership, this paper examined how these two types of leadership influenced employee well-being through psychological empowerment. It investigated the moderating effect of organizational rank in the relationship between leadership and employee well-being. Through an experiment and a correlational study, we showed that prestige-based leadership had a more positive impact on employee well-being than dominance-based leadership, a relationship significantly mediated by psychological empowerment. Moreover, we found that organizational rank only negatively moderated the relationship between dominance-based leadership and well-being but had no effect on the relationship between prestige-based leadership and wellbeing. The findings shed light on the internal mechanism and boundary conditions of how leadership influences employee well-being and can provide better guidance for management practice to effectively improve employee well-being.