Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Inclusive leadership and work-family enrichment: the roles of relational energy and power distance
Originally published 2025-02-05 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1516361 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about leadership practices sensitive to power relationships; the original evidence concerns 673 Chinese participants in Study 1 and 241 Chinese employees in Study 2.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Trust
Can a manager who listens create resources that travel home?
This reading brings inclusive leadership, relational energy and power distance in work-family enrichment into the trust pathway. The cross-sectional survey and three-wave employee study offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
673 Chinese participants in Study 1 and 241 Chinese employees in Study 2
Age / stage: Working adults; children not directly assessed
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess inclusive leadership and relational energy?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about power distance and the two study designs?
- What would need to be checked before adopting leadership practices sensitive to power relationships?
Keep the limits in view
The studies are observational, including time-separated reports; cultural setting and unmeasured employee differences constrain causal interpretation.
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Junlin Zhang; Zongrui Liu; Jianli Wang (2025). Inclusive leadership and work-family enrichment: the roles of relational energy and power distance Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1516361
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