Are leaders' well-being, behaviours and style associated with the affective well-being of their employees? A systematic review of three decades of research

By J. Skakon, K. Nielsen, V. Borg, J. Guzmán. 2010

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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Transformational leadership: Relationship to job stress and job burnout in five-star hotels (2015, methodology): “Moreover, the present study is convenient with a study conducted by Gill et al. (2010b), Skakon et al. (2010), and Pearson and Moomaw (2005) in which the relationships between TL and employee JS have been tested and a negative relationship between TL and JS has been found; that is, TL reduces…”
Daily transactional and transformational leadership and daily employee engagement (2014, background): “According to Smircich and Morgan (1982), leaders define and shape their followers’ work environment. Leaders are an important part of followers’ immediate social environment, on which followers rely when making judgements about their work environment (Salancik & Pfeffer, 1978). In line with this rea”
Leadership, job crafting, and employee health and performance (2018, background): “This idea is supported by research that shows that employee-oriented leadership is positively related to employee health and performance (Skakon et al., 2010; Wang et al., 2011).”
Workplace resources to improve both employee well-being and performance: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2017, background): “Furthermore, an emergent body of literature suggests that leadership behaviours do not only influence employee performance (Judge & Piccolo, 2004), but also employee well-being (Skakon et al., 2010).”
Is Transformational Leadership Healthy for Employees? A Multilevel Analysis in 16 Nations (2014, background): “…leadership approach as the current state of research suggests that mainly transformational and in part also contingent reward leadership (one element of transactional leadership, cf. below) is positively associated with employee health and well-being (Skakon et al., 2010).”
Turning their Pain to Gain: Charismatic Leader Influence on Follower Stress Appraisal and Job Performance (2016, background): “…direct correlations between transformational leadership and felt stress (Bono et al., 2007; Seltzer et al., 1989; Sosik & Godshalk, 2000; see Skakon et al., 2010 for a review), no studies have specifically examined how charismatic leaders impact follower performance within the stress…”
The Impact of Health-Oriented Leadership on Follower Health: Development and Test of a New Instrument Measuring Health-Promoting Leadership (2014, background): “With regard to follower health, most studies have applied the concept of transformational leadership (Franke & Felfe, 2011a; Skakon et al., 2010).”
Transformational Leadership and Well-Being in Sports: The Mediating Role of Need Satisfaction (2014, background): “Second, more research has been called for in order to explore mediators of this relationship and to enhance our understanding of how transformational leadership increases well-being (Skakon et al., 2010).”
Leader Behavior as a Determinant of Health at Work: Specification and Evidence of Five Key Pathways (2014, background): “…relation to four forms of leader behaviour Leadership has a substantial influence on every aspect of employees’ experience at work, including not only their effectiveness, motivation, satisfaction, but also their health and wellbeing (e.g., Ellemers, de Gilder & Haslam, 2004; Skakon et al., 2010).”
Engaging leadership in the job demands-resources model (2015, background): “Unfortunately, the exhaustive recent literature review of Skakon et al. (2010) did not identify any study on the indirect effect of leadership on burnout, via job characteristics.”
Leadership behavior and employee well-being: An integrated review and a future research agenda (2018, background): “It is associated with higher levels of employee well-being (e.g., Skakon et al., 2010).”
Transformational leadership, work engagement, and occupational success (2012, background): “Transformational leadership and employee well-being There is a great body of research examining the relation between transformational leadership and well-being (e.g. Kuoppala et al., 2008; Nielsen et al., 2008; Skakon et al., 2010).”