 Followers’ PsyCap and Job Performance: A Longitudinal COR Approach to Transformational Leadership as a Key ResourceSunu Widianto and Celeste P. M. Wilderom SAGE Open, 2023, vol. 13, issue 3, 21582440231201702 Abstract: Rooted in both the self-concept based theory of transformational leadership and the conservation of resources (COR) theory, transformational leadership is hypothesized to elicit follower-felt support for excellence and, through it, follower psychological capital (PsyCap), resulting in high follower job performance as well as work engagement. We examined this three-path mediation model with change scores from a two-wave study of 149 Indonesian healthcare workers. When applying structural equation modeling to the change scores, the integrated model was supported. Further cross-lagged analysis showed that transformational leadership had a lagged effect on follower PsyCap and that follower PsyCap had, in turn, a lagged effect on follower job performance. Hence, PsyCap is proposed as a parsimonious element in the self-concept-based theory of transformational leadership. Moreover, the results suggest that the transformational style can be added as a so-called “key†resource to COR’s notion of “gain spirals.†Keywords: transformational leadership; follower-felt support for excellence; psychological capital; job performance; work engagement; longitudinal study (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:sagope:v:13:y:2023:i:3:p:21582440231201702 DOI: 10.1177/21582440231201702 Access Statistics for this article More articles in SAGE Open |
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