Threatened by your stars? A multi-method research investigating the negative upward influence of star employees on immediate supervisors

被引：0

作者：

Xiao, Jincen ^{[1
]}

Wei, Jing ^{[1
]}

Cheng, Bao ^{[2
]}

Wang, Yingjian ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Xihua Univ, Sch Management, Chengdu, Peoples R China

[2] Southwestern Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Business Adm, Chengdu, Peoples R China

来源：

JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH | 2025年 / 190卷

基金：

中国国家自然科学基金;

关键词：

Star employee; Upward influence; Feeling trusted by manager; Perceived status threat; Self-interested behavior; SELF; BEHAVIOR; CONSEQUENCES; PERCEPTIONS; PERFORMERS; KNOWLEDGE; SUPPORT;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115246

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

In recent years, scholars and practitioners have shared an increasing interest in exploring the impact of star employees. However, most focus has been on the association between star employees and non-stars, teams, or organizations, with little work concerning the potential upward influence of star employees on their immediate supervisors. Combining star employee literature and the cognitive appraisal theory of stress, this research develops a mediated moderation model to examine when and how star employees trigger supervisors' self-interested behaviors. Results from a scenario-based experiment and a time-lagged multi-source field survey (204 star-supervisor dyads) revealed that supervisors are likely to be threatened by star employees when they feel a low level of trust from their managers. Consequently, supervisors tend to engage in self-interested behaviors as a means of self-protection. These findings enrich existing star employee literature by focusing on the star-supervisor dyad and provide insight into related management practices.

引用

页数：11