Adaptive Expertise: A study on the influence of self-determination and transformational leadership

GODOY, MARIA TEREZA TOMÉ DE; MENDONÇA, HELENIDES

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Article • Cad. EBAPE.BR 18 (spe) • Nov 2020 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1679-395120190147x copy

Adaptive Expertise: A study on the influence of self-determination and transformational leadership

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Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the role of transformational leadership in adaptive expertise and test the mediating role of self-determination in this relationship by satisfying the psychological needs of autonomy, belonging, competence and achievement. The survey was conducted with 383 Brazilian workers. The collected data were analyzed through confirmatory factorial analysis (CFA) and multiple regressions. The results of the analyses made it possible to highlight the positive relationship between transformational leadership, adaptive expertise, and self-determination. Quadruple mediation analysis was performed to evidence the effect of self-determination on the relationship between transformational leadership and adaptive expertise. The results confirm the effect of the transformational leader on competence and the mediating effect of self-determination in this relationship. This research advances in the job demands-resources (JD-R), confirming the importance of the worker's resources and personal resources.

Keywords:
Adaptive Expertise; Self-Determination Theory; Transformational Leadership; JD-R

Items	Factor loads
Specific domain
1. I am capable of developing and aggregating new knowledge with the knowledge that I already possess.	0.68
2. I am concerned with the development of my competencies in order to realize my tasks.	0.64
3. I acquire a better understanding of my knowledge when I perform my tasks.	0.68
4. My knowledge of my tasks is constantly improving.	0.70
5. I need to be continually learning to be competent in my activities.	0.59
Meta-cognitive
6. I demonstrate that I am willing to continue learning about how to perform my activities.	0.70
7. I apply my knowledge to new and unknown situations related to my activities.	0.74
8. I focus on new challenges.	0.68
9. I work on new projects using the knowledge that I have learned from work in the past.	0.70
Innovation
10. I am capable of maintaining my performance at a high level even when I am in new and unknown situations.	0.71
11. I am capable of applying my knowledge in a flexible manner for different activities at work.	0.80
12. I frequently question my command of my competencies.	0.52
Autonomy
13. I have confidence in my ability to perform my activities.	0.85
14. I believe in myself and in my capacity to produce effective results.	0.88

Items	Factor loads
Achievement
1. You need to achieving something important through your work.	0.71
2. You need for a sense of accomplishment form what you do at work.	0.84
3. You need to make a positive contribution through your work.	0.87
Belongingness
4. You need a sense of connection with the people you work with.	0.81
5. You need for genuine relationships with people at work.	0.92
6. You need to have friendship at work.	0.78
Autonomy
7. You need a sense of control over how you do your job.	0.61
8. You need autonomy in deciding how to do your work.	0.94
9. You need freedom and independence in how you do your work.	0.94
Competence
10. You need for feeling competent at work.	0.91
11. You need for feeling capable of completing your work in a satisfactory standards.	0.87
12. You need for feeling confident about how you execute your work.	0.85

Items	Factor loads
Charisma or idealized influence
1. My immediate superior makes me feel comfortable by his or her side.	0.88
2. My immediate superior expresses in few words what I can and should do.	0.55
3. My immediate superior makes me think of old problems in a new way.	0.82
Inspirational Motivation
4. My immediate superior helps me in my professional development.	0.85
5. I have complete trust in my immediate superior.	0.91
6. My immediate superior projects an encouraging image of what I can do.	0.89
Intellectual Stimulation
7. My immediate superior provides me with new ways of looking at problematic things.	0.90
8. My immediate superior lets me know what he or she thinks of what I am doing.	0.79
9. I feel proud to work with my immediate superior.	0.94
Individualized Consideration
10. My immediate superior helps me find meaning in my work.	0.94
11. My immediate superior makes me rethink ideas that I never questioned before.	0.91
12. My immediate superior gives personal attention to employees that appear rejected.	0.85

	A	SD	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1. Age	37.17	10.01	-
2. Gender	1.43	0.50	0.06	-
3. Tenure	3.56	1.16	0.68^**	0.08	-
4. TLI	3.21	1.02	-0.13^*	-0.07	-0.18^**	-
5. Autonomy	3.45	0.97	-0.10	0.06	-0.08	0.28^**	-
6. Belongingness	3.46	0.90	-0.11^*	-0.07	-0.16^**	0.38^**	0.48^**	-
7. Competence	3.79	0.96	-0.05	0.06	-0.03	0.24^**	0.69^**	0.55^**	-
8. Achievement	3.50	0.92	-0.05	0.01	-0.07	0.34^**	0.64^**	0.50^**	0.72^**	-
9. ACI	4.20	0.54	0.11^*	-0.07	0.09	0.14^**	0.26^**	0.29^**	0.35^**	0.33^**

	Autonomy			Belongingness			Competence			Achievement			ACI
	Coef.	t	p	Coef.	t	p	Coef.	t	p	Coef.	t	p	Coef.	t	p
Age	-0.01	-1.17	0.242	0.00	0.47	0.637	0.00	-0.12	0.904	0.00	0.80	0.424	0.01	1.75	0.081
Gender	0.15	1.60	0.111	-0.13	-1.69	0.092	0.09	1.38	0.166	-0.03	-0.45	0.652	-0.09	-1.66	0.097
Tenure	0.02	0.31	0.757	-0.07	-1.58	0.115	0.05	1.20	0.232	0.65	-0.54	0.588	0.03	0.84	0.399
TLI (direct effect)	0.27	5.63	0.000	0.21	5.28	0.000	0.00	-0.35	0.729	0.12	3.52	0.000	0.09	3.14	0.002
Autonomy				0.38	9.23	0.000	0.55	13.69	0.000	0.23	5.12	0.000	0.00	-0.16	0.876
Belongingness							0.32	7.21	0.000	0.07	1.70	0.090	0.07	2.03	0.044
Competence										0.46	9.74	0.000	0.11	2.43	0.016
Achievement													0.09	2.01	0.045
TLI (indirect effect)													0.01	0.44	0.663

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[1] Maria Tereza Tomé de Godoy - Ph.D. in Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás (PUC Goiás); Administrator at the Dean of Personnel Management at the Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Goiânia - GO, Brazil. E-mail: mttgodoy@gmail.com