Health–relevant leadership behaviour: A comparison of leadership constructs

Sabine Gregersen, Sylvie Vincent-Hoeper and Albert Nienhaus

Zeitschrift fuer Personalforschung. German Journal of Research in Human Resource Management, 2014, vol. 28, issue 1-2, 117-138

Abstract: There is empirical evidence that leadership behaviour is related to employee well-being. Most studies have analysed the relation between individual leadership constructs and indicators of employee well-being. There has been no systematic comparison of different leadership constructs with respect to their impact on different indicators of employee well-being within the same sample. The aim of our study was therefore to compare different leadership constructs with respect to their relation with indicators of positive and negative employee well-being. The sample consists of 1,045 health care workers. We conducted relative weight analyses and hierarchical regression analyses in order to identify the best leadership predictor for employee well-being. Our analyses reveal that leader-member exchange best predicts most of the well-being indicators and that the other leadership constructs fail to add substantial additional variance. Our findings advance the understanding of how leaders can enhance employee well-being and provide implications for research and practice.

Keywords: leadership; consideration; initiating structure; transactional leadership; transformational leadership; leader-member exchange; well-being (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 I31 L25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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