Do Job Insecure Leaders Perform Less Transformational Leadership? The Roles of Emotional Exhaustion and Trait Mindfulness

While job insecurity has a wide range of negative effects on employees’ work attitudes and behaviors, scholars still know little about its impact on leaders. Drawing from conservation of resources theory, we developed and tested a theoretical model that links job insecurity and transformational leadership behavior. This model explores the mediating role of emotional exhaustion and the moderating role of leaders’ trait mindfulness in influencing...