Going the Extra Mile (or Not): A Moderated Mediation Analysis of Job Resources, Abusive Leadership, Autonomous Motivation, and Extra-Role Performance

Annick Parent-Lamarche, Claude Fernet and Stéphanie Austin
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Annick Parent-Lamarche: Department of Human Resources Management, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 3225, Albert-Tessier, Trois-Rivières, QC G8Z 4M3, Canada
Claude Fernet: Department of Human Resources Management, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 3225, Albert-Tessier, Trois-Rivières, QC G8Z 4M3, Canada
Stéphanie Austin: Department of Human Resources Management, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 3225, Albert-Tessier, Trois-Rivières, QC G8Z 4M3, Canada

Administrative Sciences, 2022, vol. 12, issue 2, 1-12

Abstract: Abusive leadership is particularly prevalent in nursing and it can have multiple adverse effects on performance at work. However, little research has examined whether and under what conditions abusive leadership may be detrimental to nurses’ extra-role performance. This cross-sectional study explores whether abusive leadership intensifies the effects of emotional job resources on autonomous motivation, a psychological mechanism that could be responsible for extra-role performance. Data were collected from dyads of registered French-Canadian nurses and their immediate supervisors ( n = 99 dyads). The models were tested with path analysis using Mplus. Our results show that extra-role performance is positively associated with nurses’ job emotional resources and autonomous motivation, but negatively associated with abusive leadership. Nurses’ cynicism is also negatively associated with autonomous motivation. Importantly, the indirect relation between emotional resources and extra-role performance through autonomous motivation is moderated by abusive leadership, providing support for a moderated mediation effect. These results add to those supporting a similar moderated mediation mechanism to explain employee attitudes and demonstrate the relevance of self-determination theory in a work context. These findings reinforce the need to focus on the quality of leadership practices as well as interventions aimed at promoting the performance of nurses at work.

Keywords: abusive leadership; autonomous motivation; extra-role performance; emotional resources; job demands–resources model; self-determination theory; path analysis; moderated mediation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L M M0 M1 M10 M11 M12 M14 M15 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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