Health-Relevant Leadership Behaviour: A Comparison of Leadership Constructs. (February 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gregersen, Sabine; Vincent-Höper, Sylvie; Nienhaus, Albert
• Other Names: Wegge Jürgen guest-editor.; Shemla Meir guest-editor.; Haslam S. Alexander guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: German journal of human resource management =. Volume 28:Number 1/2(2014)
• Page Start: 117
• Page End: 138
• Publication Date: 2014-02
• Subjects: leadership -- consideration -- initiating structure -- transactional leadership -- transformational leadership -- leader-member exchange -- well-being; Personnel management -- Periodicals; Personnel management -- Germany -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; Periodicals; 658.3
• DOI: 10.1177/239700221402800107
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2397-0022

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.