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Leaders' achievement goals predict employee burnout above and beyond employees' own achievement goals.
J Pers. 2019 Jun; 87(3):702-714.JP

Abstract

OBJECTIVE

Burnout has primarily been examined from an individual's perspective without taking the broader environmental context into account. The authors applied an integrative, multilevel perspective and investigated the influence of leaders' motivational strivings on employee burnout. In two multisource studies, we investigated relationships between leaders' achievement goals and employee burnout while controlling for employees' own achievement goals.

METHOD

Study 1 consisted of 362 members and 72 leaders of the corresponding working groups. Study 2 consisted of 177 employees and 46 leaders of the corresponding working groups, and measurements were spaced apart in time. We also ran a model including the data of both Study 1 and Study 2.

RESULTS

Multilevel analyses indicated that leaders' mastery-approach goals were negatively related to employee burnout above and beyond employees' own achievement goals. Leaders' performance-approach goals were positively related to employee burnout in Study 1 and in the overall analysis combining Study 1 and Study 2.

CONCLUSIONS

We advance our understanding of the motivational etiology of burnout by examining the top-down effects of leaders' achievement goals on employee burnout over and above employees' own achievement goals. In order to reduce burnout, organizations should take leaders' achievement goals into account as an important contextual factor.

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Authors+Show Affiliations

Sijbom RBL
Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Lang JWB
Department of Personnel Management, Work and Organizational Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Anseel F
Department of Personnel Management, Work and Organizational Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. King's College London, King's Business School, London, United Kingdom.

MeSH

AdolescentAdultAgedBelgiumBurnout, PsychologicalFemaleGoalsHumansLeadershipMaleMiddle AgedMultilevel AnalysisOrganizational CultureWorkplaceYoung Adult

Pub Type(s)

Comparative Study
Journal Article

Language

eng

PubMed ID

30075484

Citation

Sijbom, Roy B L., et al. "Leaders' Achievement Goals Predict Employee Burnout Above and Beyond Employees' Own Achievement Goals." Journal of Personality, vol. 87, no. 3, 2019, pp. 702-714.
Sijbom RBL, Lang JWB, Anseel F. Leaders' achievement goals predict employee burnout above and beyond employees' own achievement goals. J Pers. 2019;87(3):702-714.
Sijbom, R. B. L., Lang, J. W. B., & Anseel, F. (2019). Leaders' achievement goals predict employee burnout above and beyond employees' own achievement goals. Journal of Personality, 87(3), 702-714. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12427
Sijbom RBL, Lang JWB, Anseel F. Leaders' Achievement Goals Predict Employee Burnout Above and Beyond Employees' Own Achievement Goals. J Pers. 2019;87(3):702-714. PubMed PMID: 30075484.
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TY - JOUR T1 - Leaders' achievement goals predict employee burnout above and beyond employees' own achievement goals. AU - Sijbom,Roy B L, AU - Lang,Jonas W B, AU - Anseel,Frederik, Y1 - 2018/09/04/ PY - 2016/12/26/received PY - 2018/7/13/revised PY - 2018/7/28/accepted PY - 2018/8/4/pubmed PY - 2020/6/5/medline PY - 2018/8/4/entrez KW - burnout KW - goal orientation KW - leadership KW - motivation KW - multilevel SP - 702 EP - 714 JF - Journal of personality JO - J Pers VL - 87 IS - 3 N2 - OBJECTIVE: Burnout has primarily been examined from an individual's perspective without taking the broader environmental context into account. The authors applied an integrative, multilevel perspective and investigated the influence of leaders' motivational strivings on employee burnout. In two multisource studies, we investigated relationships between leaders' achievement goals and employee burnout while controlling for employees' own achievement goals. METHOD: Study 1 consisted of 362 members and 72 leaders of the corresponding working groups. Study 2 consisted of 177 employees and 46 leaders of the corresponding working groups, and measurements were spaced apart in time. We also ran a model including the data of both Study 1 and Study 2. RESULTS: Multilevel analyses indicated that leaders' mastery-approach goals were negatively related to employee burnout above and beyond employees' own achievement goals. Leaders' performance-approach goals were positively related to employee burnout in Study 1 and in the overall analysis combining Study 1 and Study 2. CONCLUSIONS: We advance our understanding of the motivational etiology of burnout by examining the top-down effects of leaders' achievement goals on employee burnout over and above employees' own achievement goals. In order to reduce burnout, organizations should take leaders' achievement goals into account as an important contextual factor. SN - 1467-6494 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/30075484/Leaders'_achievement_goals_predict_employee_burnout_above_and_beyond_employees'_own_achievement_goals_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -