The Influence of Paradoxical Leadership on Adaptive Performance of New-Generation Employees in the Post-Pandemic Era: The Role of Harmonious Work Passion and Core Self-Evaluation

The post-pandemic era is full of instability and uncertainty, which brings new challenges opportunities to the development organization. As a sustainable feature enterprises, improving employees’ adaptive performance levels necessary condition for enterprises achieve goal. This study based on self-determination theory, focuses new-generation employees as key force enterprise incorporates harmonious work passion core self-evaluation into research framework explore influence paradoxical leadership performance. survey data obtained from 519 shows that: significantly positively correlated with employees; relationship between partially mediated by passion; adjusts passion. In addition, also regulates intermediary role passion—that say, higher is, stronger results explain connotation how improves employees, reveal medium two, find both boundary strategy improve