AUTHOR=Liu Liangcan , Wan Zhitao , Wang Li 

TITLE=Cross-level research on the impact of self-serving leadership on employee innovation behavior: The roles of workplace anxiety and team psychological safety

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 13 - 2022

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1069022

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1069022

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=Employee innovative behavior is significant in maintaining an organization’s sustainable development. This research explored the impact of team psychological safety and workplace anxiety in the association self-serving leadership with employee innovation behavior by synthesizing the social information processing theory, conservation of resources theory, and ego depletion theory. We conducted a hierarchical linear model analysis using three-wave paired data collected from 86 leaders and 392 employees. The research results show that self-serving leadership is negatively correlated with Employee innovation behavior. meanwhile, team psychological safety and workplace anxiety mediated this relationship;. In addition, team psychological safety alleviates the impact of workplace anxiety on employee innovation behavior and the indirect impact of self-serving leadership on employee innovation behavior via workplace anxiety. these findings have a number of theoretical and practical implications in the domains of self-serving leadership and employee innovation behavior.