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The Influence of Spiritual Leadership on Job Satisfaction: The Mediating Effect of Employee’s Optimism and the Moderating Effect of Machiavellian Personality

Authors
Guanming Chen1, *, Chenghong Huang2
1School of Business, Macau University of Technology and Science, Macau, China
2Cangshan Branch of Fuzhou City of China Bank, Fuzhou, China
*Corresponding author. Email: 26028971@qq.com
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Guanming Chen
Available Online 16 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-45-9_77How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Spiritual Leadership; Job Satisfaction; Optimism; Machiavellian Personality
Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore the mediating effect of optimism between spiritual leadership and job satisfaction. This study proposes that spiritual leadership has positive impact on employees’ optimism and job satisfaction based on the spiritual leadership theory and resource conservation theory. Meanwhile, this study also exams whether Machiavellian Personality, as an individual difference of employees, can influence the impact from spiritual leadership. Therefore, this study develops a moderated mediation model to test the hypotheses through empirical ways like SPSS and a questionnaire survey with 330 employees participated in. The research results showed that spiritual leadership has significantly positive impact on employee’s optimism and job satisfaction, employee’s optimism has significantly positive impact on employee’s job satisfaction. Employee’s optimism mediates the relationship between spiritual leadership and job satisfaction, and Machiavellian Personality moderated the relationship between spiritual leadership and optimism. The research results of this provide some managerial implications to managers.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 2nd International Conference on Modern Educational Technology and Social Sciences (ICMETSS 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
16 December 2022
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-494069-45-9_77
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2352-5398
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10.2991/978-2-494069-45-9_77How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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