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Research on Leadership Style and Career Growth Prospects of Newcomers Based on Management Grid Theory

Authors
Shiqiang Hu1, *
1Business School, Nanjing Xiaozhuang University, Nanjing, 211171, China
*Corresponding author. Email: shiqiang-hu@163.com
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Shiqiang Hu
Available Online 13 March 2026.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6239-602-9_23How to use a DOI?
Keywords
job role identity; career development prospects; leadership styles; emotional; job performance
Abstract

Newcomers will have high expectations for their careers, In order to better understand the relevant factors affecting career growth prospects, this article is based on role identity theory, through three-stage data collection, an empirical test was conducted with a sample of 875 new employees who had been employed within one year. This study found that compared with poor and task-oriented leadership styles, country club and team leadership styles have a greater impact on the career development prospects of new employees; country club and team leadership styles have a positive impact on employees’ career development prospects, while poor Leadership style and task-oriented leadership styles have a negative impact on employees’ career development prospects; job role identification partially mediates the relationship between the four leadership styles and employees’ career development prospects.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2025 7th International Conference on Economic Management and Model Engineering (ICEMME 2025)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
13 March 2026
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978-94-6239-602-9
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2352-5428
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10.2991/978-94-6239-602-9_23How to use a DOI?
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© 2026 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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