Does My Humor Touch You? Effect of Leader Self-Deprecating Humour on Employee Silence: The Mediating Role of Leader-Member Exchange

Dove Press 2023-05-04

An,Jiaji
Di,He
Yang,Zixuan
Yao,Meifang

Jiaji An,1 He Di,2 Zixuan Yang,3 Meifang Yao2 1School of Finance, Jilin University of Finance and Economics, Changchun, People’s Republic of China; 2School of Business and Management, Jilin University, Changchun, People’s Republic of China; 3Shenzhen Finance Institute, School of Management and Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: He Di, School of Business and Management, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Ave, Changchun, 130012, People’s Republic of China, Email dihe@jlu.edu.cnPurpose: Silence is a typical negative behaviour exhibited by employees when they are faced with tension and stress and is influenced by a number of factors. Leaders have an important influence on employees’ emotions and behaviour, but the research is not yet clear enough. In this paper, we focus on the research frontier of self-deprecating humour of leaders, aiming to analyse its effect on employee silence and discuss the mechanism of the role of leader-member exchange (LMX) in it, based on social exchange theory.Methods: We conducted a regression analysis and bootstrap test for mediating effects based on 2531 data from 151 financial institutions in mainland China. A simple random sampling was taken of the target population to ensure an unbiased sample. Using Harman’s single-factor test to check the data for common method bias. Regression analysis and Bootstrap test were used to analyze the correlation between variables and mediating effect models.Findings: (a) Leader self-deprecating humour significantly reduces employee silence and effectively improves the quality of LMX; (b) There is a significant negative relationship between LMX and employee silence; (c) LMX plays a mediating role in the process of self-deprecating humour influencing employee silence and this mediating effect is complete; (d) Affective exchange between leaders and employees appears to be an essential factor in reducing stress from leaders and reducing emp

Psychology Research and Behavior Management; Original Research; info:eu-repo/semantics/article

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