Contagion Resilience :Exploring the Subjestive Time Frame Effect in Organization

Despite more and more researchers recommend that time-related issues should be considered into the resilience research, time is still largely neglected in empirical domain. Given that one of purposes of this study is to investigate when leaders’ resilience contributing to subordinates’ resilience, this study aims to examine the subjective time, namely temporal focus, and its situational effect on the proposed relationship. That is, the moderating effect of leader’s future temporal focus on the proposed leader’s resilience and subordinate’s resilience relationship. Results from 72 leaders and 214 subordinates showed that there is no positive relationship between leaders’ resilience and subordinates’ resilience. However, consistent with hypotheses, the interactive effect of future temporal focus and leader’s resilience has an effect on subordinate’s resilience. Overall, this study introduced temporal focus into resilience theory by providing evidence of its impacts on employee behaviors, and emphasized the important role of future temporal focus of leader.