Linking emotion regulation strategies to employee motivation: The mediating role of guanxi harmony in the Chinese context.

Wenpei Zhang, Shanshan Guo, Jiashu Liu, Ying He, Mengmeng Song, Lirong Chen

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Wenpei ZhangDepartment of Business Administration, School of Business, Anhui University of Technology, Maanshan, China.

Shanshan GuoDepartment of Business Administration, School of Business, Anhui University of Technology, Maanshan, China.

Jiashu LiuDepartment of Business Administration, School of Business, Anhui University of Technology, Maanshan, China.

Ying HeDepartment of Business Administration, School of Business, Anhui University of Technology, Maanshan, China.

Mengmeng SongSchool of Management, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.

Lirong ChenDepartment of Psychology, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, China.

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This study examined the mediating role of guanxi harmony, a concept of interpersonal relationships specific to the Chinese context, between leaders' emotion regulation strategies and employee motivation. Data were drawn from 489 on-the-job MBA students with enough management experience from thirteen different types of cities in China. The study tested the model using hierarchical regression. The results showed that the reappraisal strategy was positively related to employee motivation and the suppression strategy was negatively related to employee motivation in the Chinese context. Guanxi harmony played a partially mediating role between reappraisal and employee motivation, and played a fully mediating role between suppression and employee motivation. These findings suggest that in the Chinese context, guanxi harmony between leaders and employees has a positive effect on employee motivation, and when leaders apply appropriate emotion regulation strategies, they can achieve guanxi harmony and promote employee motivation.

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employee motivationguanxi harmonyleadershipreappraisalsuppression

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PMID35967625

DOI10.3389/fpsyg.2022.837144

PMCPMC9363703

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