Positive Leadership and Employee Well-Being. (February 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kelloway, E. Kevin; Weigand, Heidi; McKee, Margaret C.; Das, Hari
• Other Names: Latham Gary P. guest-editor.; Piccolo Ronald guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Journal of leadership & organizational studies. Volume 20:Number 1(2013)
• Page Start: 107
• Page End: 117
• Publication Date: 2013-02
• Subjects: positive leadership -- leadership -- well-being -- employee well-being; Leadership -- Periodicals; Management -- Periodicals; Organization -- Periodicals; 658.4092
• DOI: 10.1177/1548051812465892
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1548-0518

Abstract

We report two studies examining the relationship between positive leadership behaviors and employee well-being. In the first, data from 454 nursing home employees showed that (a) a newly developed measure of positive leadership was distinct from transformational leadership and (b) positive leadership behaviors predicted context-specific and context-free well-being after controlling for transformational and abusive leadership. In the second study, data from a daily diary study ( N = 26) showed that (a) positive leadership predicted positive, but not negative, employee affect and (b) positive leadership interacted with transformational leadership to predict employees positive affect.