The Impact of Individual New Power Values on Taking Charge Behavior: The Roles of Constructive Responsibility Perception and Regulatory Focus

With societal development and technological advancement, individuals' power cognition and the conditions for power practice have undergone continuous transformation.Consequently, individual power values in organizational micro-contexts have evolved, profoundly influencing workplace behaviors.Drawing on conservation of resources theory, this study employs a questionnaire survey method to examine the mechanisms through which individual new power values influence taking charge behavior.The results reveal that new power values positively influence individuals' taking charge behavior.Constructive responsibility perception mediates the relationship between new power values and taking charge behavior.Both promotion-focused and prevention-focused regulatory orientations negatively moderate the relationship between new power values and constructive responsibility perception.Additionally, promotion focus negatively moderates the mediating effect of constructive responsibility perception on the relationship between new power values and taking charge behavior.These findings enrich the literature on the effects of new power from a power transformation perspective and provide managerial implications for organizations to leverage the positive effects of new power values and stimulate employees' taking charge behavior.