Performance evaluations of leadership quality and public sector leaders’ absenteeism

Ann-Kristina Løkke and Sarah M. L. Krøtel

Public Management Review, 2020, vol. 22, issue 1, 96-117

Abstract: This paper investigates the effect of performance evaluation of leadership quality on leader sickness absence. While previous research has focused on how evaluation of leadership impacts employee sickness absence, we analyse how superiors’ and subordinates’ evaluations of leadership quality, as well as leaders’ self-evaluations, influence public leaders’ own absence. A longitudinal study of 335 Danish municipal leaders, 94 superiors, and 4,449 subordinates is conducted. Findings indicate that superiors’ evaluation of leadership quality compared to the leaders’ self-evaluation is important for public sector leaders’ absenteeism. Furthermore, findings show that leaders who are over-estimators have a higher absence frequency compared to under-estimators.

Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14719037.2019.1638441 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:rpxmxx:v:22:y:2020:i:1:p:96-117

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/rpxm20

DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2019.1638441

Access Statistics for this article

Public Management Review is currently edited by Stephen P. Osborne

More articles in Public Management Review from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().