Navigating the double-edged sword: How and when laissez-faire leadership affects Employees' challenging behavior.

The majority of extant studies have found the detrimental role of laissez-faire leadership, but some researchers have revealed its potential benefits. The current research aims to investigate the double-edged nature of laissez-faire leadership. Drawing upon conservation of resources theory, we identify both the dark and bright sides of laissez-faire leadership because the nature of laissez-faire leaders not providing support resources can be perceived by employees as offering limited guidance from the resource loss perspective and offering freedom resources from the resource gain perspective.

Precarious Job Makes Me Withdraw? The Role of Job Insecurity and Negative Affect.

An expanding "gig" economy has changed the nature of employment; thus, researchers have recently focused on exploring the role of job precariousness in the workplace. However, little research attention has been given to understanding why, how and when job precariousness leads to employees' negative behavioral outcomes in the service-oriented industry. In the current study, we examined job insecurity as a mediator and employees' negative affect as a moderator in the relationship between job precariousness and employees' withdrawal behavior.

How Can Hotel Employees Produce Workplace Environmentally Friendly Behavior? The Role of Leader, Corporate and Coworkers.

Although previous studies have acknowledged that leaders' such environmental behaviors and environmental issues are becoming critical for long-term development, little research has focused on why, how and when perceived environmentally specific servant leadership contributes to employees' workplace environmentally friendly behavior in the hotel industry. This paper aims to fill this research gap by using social identity theory to test employees' green role identity as a mediator and their perceived corporate environmental responsibility and perceived coworkers' work group green advocacy as moderators in the relationship between perceived environmentally-specific servant leadership and workplace environmentally friendly behavior. Using a sample of 527 leader-follower dyads from six hotels in mainland China at two points in time, we found that employees' green role identity mediates the positive relationship between perceived environmentally specific servant leadership and employees' workplace environmentally friendly behavior.