Author(s)

Zhipeng Chen ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Economics and Management, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, Guangxi, 541000, China

Corresponding Author

Zhipeng Chen

ABSTRACT

Leadership trust helps to enhance employee innovation performance, but the relationship between the two is not inevitable, and this positive effect is weakened when leadership trust encounters employees with relative personality traits. Most previous studies have neglected the moderating role of personality traits in the relationship between the leadership trust and innovation, so it is necessary to introduce personality traits as a research variable. Machiavellian traits, neuroticism, and narcissism all have negative feedback on leadership trust in different ways, thus hindering the role of leadership trust in promoting employee innovation. In view of this, unit leaders should treat employees with negative personality traits positively, establish a scientific attitude of trust and innovation feedback, enhance the level of perceived organizational equity of employees, and promote the common development of employees and units.

KEYWORDS

Leaders; Leadership Trust; Negative Personality Trait Employees; Employee Innovation

CITE THIS PAPER

Zhipeng Chen, Analysis of the path of leadership trust to stimulate innovation in employees with negative personality traits. Journal of Human Resource Development (2023) Vol. 5: 59-70. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jhrd.2023.050510.

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