Mazzetti Greta, Vignoli Michela, Petruzziello Gerardo, Palareti Laura
Department of Education Studies, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2019 Jan 14;9:2784. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02784. eCollection 2018.
The main goal of this study was to delve deeper into the relationship between transformational leadership and better general health status among employees. Based on the Job Demands-Resources model of occupational well-being, the current research investigated the role of transformational leadership, as a job resource, in fostering individual hardiness, as a personal resource, which may in turn result in higher levels of work engagement and, consequently, better general health status among employees. Data were collected from 358 white-collar employees in an Italian company. Most of them were women (52.9%) with a mean age of 44.42 years ( = 9.22). To evaluate the hypothesis of a mediating role of employees' hardiness and work engagement within the relationship between transformational leadership and workers' general health, a bootstrapping approach was tested using a serial mediation model. In the current sample, enhanced levels of hardiness and work engagement among employees mediated the association between perceived levels of transformational leadership and individual general health conditions. These findings corroborated the role of transformational leadership as a strategic job resource in enhancing employees' hardiness and engagement with their work, which may in turn protect their general health status. Organizations willing to rely on a healthy workforce should implement human resource management strategies focused on leadership training capable of boosting employees' hardiness.
本研究的主要目标是更深入地探究变革型领导与员工更好的总体健康状况之间的关系。基于职业幸福感的工作需求-资源模型，当前研究调查了变革型领导作为一种工作资源，在培养个体心理韧性（作为一种个人资源）方面的作用，而心理韧性反过来可能会导致更高水平的工作投入，进而使员工获得更好的总体健康状况。数据收集自一家意大利公司的358名白领员工。他们大多为女性（52.9%），平均年龄为44.42岁（标准差 = 9.22）。为了评估员工心理韧性和工作投入在变革型领导与员工总体健康关系中起中介作用的假设，使用序列中介模型测试了一种自抽样方法。在当前样本中，员工心理韧性和工作投入水平的提高介导了感知到的变革型领导水平与个体总体健康状况之间的关联。这些发现证实了变革型领导作为一种战略工作资源在增强员工心理韧性和工作投入方面的作用，这反过来可能会保护他们的总体健康状况。希望依靠健康劳动力的组织应实施侧重于领导力培训的人力资源管理策略，以增强员工的心理韧性。
