UNDERSTANDING THE INFLUENCE OF SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE: AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL AND PERSONALITY TRAITS

This study takes spiritual leadership as the core concept, defines its connotation in a relatively comprehensive manner, and constructs a tool to measure it based on existing literature and theory; provides a standardized measurement tool in the field of spiritual leadership, which has high theoretical and practical value and offers a solid foundation for future related research. Paper delves deeply into the impact of spiritual leadership on employee work performance, drawing on the theory of psychological capital. We verify the mediating role of psychological capital between spiritual leadership and employee work performance. This finding reveals the path of spiritual leadership and provides a new perspective for an in-depth understanding of how it affects employee work performance. In addition, the mediation effect model proposed and verified in this study makes up for the shortcomings of existing research in revealing the specific mechanism of spiritual leadership. This study investigated how the Big Five personality traits moderate the impact of spiritual leadership on employees' psychological capital and work performance. Through the analysis of the Big Five personality questionnaire data, the study found that personality traits such as extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness significantly regulated the relationship between spiritual leadership and psychological capital. In summary, this study systematically revealed the direct impact, mediating mechanism, and moderating factors of spiritual leadership on employee work performance by constructing an integrated path model. This not only enriches the development of spiritual leadership theory but also provides a useful reference for enterprises to implement effective leadership strategies under the background of different employee personality characteristics. Future research can continue to explore other possible mediating and moderating variables in depth to further improve the mechanism of spiritual leadership.