Time to rediscover task-oriented leadership? A multi-source, time-lagged study on leadership and well-being in public service jobs

Matthias Döring, Signe Pihl-Thingvad and Rick Vogel

Public Management Review, 2025, vol. 27, issue 6, 1675-1700

Abstract: Although leaders have a considerable impact on the well-being of public employees, this relationship has not yet been fully disentangled in both conceptual and empirical terms. We develop a framework of how task- and relations-oriented leadership affect well-being (i.e. hedonic, eudaimonic, social dimensions). A multi-source, time-lagged study from a large Danish municipality shows that task-oriented leadership yields positive associations with both social and eudaimonic dimensions of well-being, while for relations-oriented leadership, we only find a positive association with hedonic well-being. The findings suggest rediscovering task-oriented leadership as an important but often overlooked quality of effective leaders.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2024.2411631

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