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Enhancing Resources at the Workplace with Health-Promoting Leadership.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2017 Oct 20; 14(10)IJ

Abstract

Leaders engaging in health-promoting leadership can influence their employees' health directly by showing health awareness or indirectly by changing working conditions. With health-promoting leadership, leaders are able to support a healthy working environment by providing resource-oriented working conditions for their employees to support their health. Changing working conditions in a health-supportive way can prevent possible negative consequences from critical working conditions (e.g., burnout risk). The present study examined the relationship between health-promoting leadership and the employees' resources, stress and burnout. To analyze our proposed model, structural equation modelling was conducted in two samples. The resulting model from the first sample of 228 Austrian workers was cross-validated and could be verified with the second sample (N = 263 Austrian workers). The results supported a model in which health-promoting leadership has a strong direct effect on the employees' resources and an indirect effect on stress and burnout, which was mediated by resources. The results indicate that health-promoting leadership describes the leaders' capability and dedication creating the right working conditions for their employees by increasing the employees' resources at the workplace. This in turn minimizes the risk of experiencing burnout.

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Jiménez P
Department of Psychology, University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria. paul.jimenez@uni-graz.at.
Bregenzer A
Department of Psychology, University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria. anita.bregenzer@uni-graz.at.
Kallus KW
Department of Psychology, University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria. wolfgang.kallus@uni-graz.at.
Fruhwirth B
Department of Psychology, University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria. bianca_fruhwirth@hotmail.com.
Wagner-Hartl V
Department of Psychology, University of Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria. verena.wagner-hartl@hs-furtwangen.de. Faculty Industrial Technologies, Furtwangen University, Campus Tuttlingen, 78532 Tuttlingen, Germany. verena.wagner-hartl@hs-furtwangen.de.

MeSH

Administrative PersonnelAdultAttitude to HealthAustriaBurnout, ProfessionalFemaleHealth PromotionHumansLeadershipMaleMiddle AgedOccupational HealthStress, PsychologicalWorkplace

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article

Language

eng

PubMed ID

29053640

Citation

Jiménez, Paul, et al. "Enhancing Resources at the Workplace With Health-Promoting Leadership." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 14, no. 10, 2017.
Jiménez P, Bregenzer A, Kallus KW, et al. Enhancing Resources at the Workplace with Health-Promoting Leadership. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2017;14(10).
Jiménez, P., Bregenzer, A., Kallus, K. W., Fruhwirth, B., & Wagner-Hartl, V. (2017). Enhancing Resources at the Workplace with Health-Promoting Leadership. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(10). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14101264
Jiménez P, et al. Enhancing Resources at the Workplace With Health-Promoting Leadership. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2017 Oct 20;14(10) PubMed PMID: 29053640.
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TY - JOUR T1 - Enhancing Resources at the Workplace with Health-Promoting Leadership. AU - Jiménez,Paul, AU - Bregenzer,Anita, AU - Kallus,K Wolfgang, AU - Fruhwirth,Bianca, AU - Wagner-Hartl,Verena, Y1 - 2017/10/20/ PY - 2017/8/17/received PY - 2017/10/11/revised PY - 2017/10/17/accepted PY - 2017/10/21/entrez PY - 2017/10/21/pubmed PY - 2018/4/10/medline KW - burnout KW - health KW - leadership KW - resources KW - stress KW - working conditions KW - workplace health promotion JF - International journal of environmental research and public health JO - Int J Environ Res Public Health VL - 14 IS - 10 N2 - Leaders engaging in health-promoting leadership can influence their employees' health directly by showing health awareness or indirectly by changing working conditions. With health-promoting leadership, leaders are able to support a healthy working environment by providing resource-oriented working conditions for their employees to support their health. Changing working conditions in a health-supportive way can prevent possible negative consequences from critical working conditions (e.g., burnout risk). The present study examined the relationship between health-promoting leadership and the employees' resources, stress and burnout. To analyze our proposed model, structural equation modelling was conducted in two samples. The resulting model from the first sample of 228 Austrian workers was cross-validated and could be verified with the second sample (N = 263 Austrian workers). The results supported a model in which health-promoting leadership has a strong direct effect on the employees' resources and an indirect effect on stress and burnout, which was mediated by resources. The results indicate that health-promoting leadership describes the leaders' capability and dedication creating the right working conditions for their employees by increasing the employees' resources at the workplace. This in turn minimizes the risk of experiencing burnout. SN - 1660-4601 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/29053640/Enhancing_Resources_at_the_Workplace_with_Health_Promoting_Leadership_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -