Health and development-promoting leadership behavior: Gender-specific differences

作者：Vincent Sylvie^*

来源：Gruppendynamik und Organisationsberatung, 2012, 43(1): 61-89.

DOI：10.1007/s11612-011-0170-7

• Leadership
• Health
• Condition
• Well-being
• Development
• Gender

There has been a growing interest in the past years, in analyzing the impact of leadership behavior on employees' health and well-being. In the present study, we investigated the relationships between supervisors' behavior and indicators of employees' well-being among a sample of 685 female and 637 male employees. Employees assessed the leadership behavior of their direct supervisors using the recently developed Gesundheits- und Entwicklungsforderliche FuhrungsverhaltensAnalyse (GEFA) and reported information on their well-being. Supervisors' behavior was significantly related to all indicators of examined employees' well-being. The underlying model of health- and development-promoting leadership behavior-with the dimensions: demanding leadership, development-oriented leadership, and support-oriented leadership could be confirmed. Gender-differentiated analyses regarding the gender of the supervisors and of the employees, revealed differences in leadership behavior which were reflected in employees' wellbeing. We discuss implications of these findings for research and practice.

• 出版日期2012-3