In this study, the authors analyze leadership behaviors as potential health-promoting resources for low-skilled workers in a highly culturally diverse work setting. The authors hypothesize that subordinates’ and supervisors’ individual power distance orientations will moderate the effect of...

This study investigates the processes through which transformational leaders influence employee psychological health. The results indicate that employees’ perceptions of justice of the organization and psychological empowerment mediate the positive relationship between transformational...

The impact of health-oriented leadership on follower health: Development and test of a new instrument measuring health-promoting leadership** Based on previous research on leadership and follower health, three questions need to be answered or clarified. These questions refer to what...

This study examines the relationship between appreciative behavior and employee well-being on a daily basis. The theoretical rationale of our approach is based in leadership concepts emphasizing the relational aspect of leadership, and, more generally, in a framework that emphasizes the central...

This study examines the potential health promoting and hampering effects of transformational, contingent reward and laissez-faire leadership across 16 countries with a multi-source dataset comprising 93,576 subordinates in 11,177 teams of a large international company. We analyze how leadership...

Although the transformational-transactional leadership paradigm is successful in explaining considerable portions of variance in organizationally relevant outcome criteria, recent critiques emphasized that this paradigm might be incomplete. Thus, Antonakis and House (2002) suggested that...

Servant leadership is thought to encourage socially responsible and moral behaviors. In the present article, we test the positive relationship between servant leadership and employees’ psychological health. We argue that servant leadership is positively related to employees’ health because...

The extent to which leadership influences employee health and the processes that underlie its effects are not well understood at present. With the aim of filling this gap, we review four distinct forms of leader behavior (task-oriented, relationship-oriented, change-oriented, and...

Previous research has examined burnout and work engagement as a function of demands and resources at work. Yet we know little about the ways in which these are determined by people’s social experience as a member of their workgroup as shaped, in particular, by leaders’ management of shared...

Im vorliegenden Beitrag untersuchen wir die organisationsexternen Deutungen einer Arbeitgebermarke vor dem Hintergrund eines interpretativen, relationalen Verstaendnisses von Branding. In einer explorativen Studie auf der Basis von 16 semi-strukturierten Interviews mit potentiellen BewerberInnen...