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Strengths Use and Employee Advice: The Mediating Role of Core Self-Evaluation

Received: 27 June 2023     Accepted: 17 July 2023     Published: 4 August 2023
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Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the association of employee strengths use with their advice behavior, and the mediating role of core self-evaluation. Data were collected from a sample of 272 employees working in a variety of enterprises in China. The results show that strength use has a positive impact on employee advice behavior, When employees can fully use their strengths to complete a task, they can face the work and challenges of the organization with more confidence and trust their own opinions. Strength use has a positive impact on core self-evaluation, strength use is a kind of positive intervention, which can help employees find and understand their own strengths to improve their core self-evaluation. Core self-evaluation has a positive impact on employee advice, employees with high level of core self-evaluation more likely to put forward high-quality suggestions. Strength use has an impact on advice behavior through the mediating role of core self-evaluation, and core self-evaluation partially mediates the relationship between strengths use and employee advice. This study contributes to the literature of strengths use.

Published in Journal of Human Resource Management (Volume 11, Issue 3)
DOI 10.11648/j.jhrm.20231103.12
Page(s) 97-101
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Keywords

Strengths Use, Core Self-Evaluation, Advice

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  • Department of Human Resources and Public Management, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Institute, Beijing, China

  • Department of Human Resources and Public Management, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Institute, Beijing, China

  • Department of Human Resources and Public Management, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Institute, Beijing, China

  • Department of Human Resources and Public Management, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Institute, Beijing, China

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