Can exploitative Leadership Reduce Employees’ job Satisfaction? -- Based on the role of Conflict Mediation in Team Work

Liangyan Lu; Wanbao Yuan; Kunyi Wang; Gong Chen; Chenxi Yang

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Can exploitative Leadership Reduce Employees’ job Satisfaction? -- Based on the role of Conflict Mediation in Team Work

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Liangyan Lu¹, Wanbao Yuan²^{, *}, Kunyi Wang², Gong Chen³, Chenxi Yang³

¹Accounting and Finance Department, Yunnan College of Business Management, Kunming, Yunnan, 650500, China

²School of Economics, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650500, China

³Department of Geography, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650500, China

^*Corresponding author. Email: 3122329511@qq.com

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Wanbao Yuan

Available Online 20 February 2026.

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Keywords: Exploitative leadership ; Job satisfaction ; Team work conflict ; Harmonious; working enthusiasm
Abstract: Recent studies increasingly examine exploitative leadership—a detrimental leadership style—owing to its adverse impact on employee job satisfaction. Drawing upon self-determination theory, this study examines the mechanisms linking exploitative leadership to diminished job satisfaction. We analyzed 314 valid questionnaires from employees at 15 enterprises across multiple prefectures and cities in Yunnan Province using SPSS. Results demonstrate that exploitative leadership significantly reduces job satisfaction. Harmonious passion mediates this relationship, whereas team conflict moderates the effect. This research elucidates the underlying mechanisms to provide theoretical and practical guidance for organizational management.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the 2025 4th International Conference on Mathematical Statistics and Economic Analysis (MSEA 2025)
Series: Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date: 20 February 2026
ISBN: 978-94-6463-992-6
ISSN: 2352-5428
DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-992-6_21 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: 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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