School of Economics and Management, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, Hebei, China.
College of International Students, Wuxi University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
Work. 2022;73(3):961-968. doi: 10.3233/WOR-210482.
Paternalistic leadership style has progressively intrigued organisational behaviour study in the last two decades. An abundance of research is integrating the existing literature on leadership and positive organizational culture to better understand the processes through which leadership leads to life satisfaction.
One such mechanism through which specific leaders influence life satisfaction is work-family conflict (WFC) and family-work conflict (FWC). Paternalistic leadership is a significant antecedent to develop subordinates' life satisfaction because it integrates discipline with fatherly support. However, no research exists to date on the effect of paternalistic leaders on subordinate' WFC and FWC, which in turn affects their life satisfaction.
The current study examines the impact of paternalistic leadership on employee life satisfaction using a sample of 198 nurses from public sector hospitals of Sindh province in Pakistan. The data was collected through survey questionnaires, and Smart-PLS-SEM was used to test the proposed hypotheses.
The primary goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between paternalistic leadership and life satisfaction. At the same time, there were significant mediation effects on life satisfaction.
The findings indicate that paternalistic leadership positively impacted life happiness through decreasing followers' WFC. However, it has a detrimental influence on FWC, which mediates the effect on subordinates' life satisfaction.
在过去的二十年中，家长式领导风格逐渐引起了组织行为研究的兴趣。大量研究将现有关于领导力和积极组织文化的文献整合在一起，以更好地理解领导力导致生活满意度的过程。
领导影响生活满意度的一种机制是工作-家庭冲突（WFC）和家庭-工作冲突（FWC）。家长式领导是培养下属生活满意度的重要前提，因为它将纪律与父爱支持相结合。然而，迄今为止，还没有研究探讨家长式领导对下属的 WFC 和 FWC 的影响，而这反过来又会影响他们的生活满意度。
本研究使用来自巴基斯坦信德省公立医院的 198 名护士样本，检验了家长式领导对员工生活满意度的影响。通过问卷调查收集数据，并使用 Smart-PLS-SEM 检验了假设。
本研究的主要目的是探讨家长式领导与生活满意度之间的关系。同时，生活满意度存在显著的中介效应。
研究结果表明，家长式领导通过降低员工的 WFC 对生活幸福感产生积极影响。然而，它对 FWC 有不利影响，FWC 会影响下属的生活满意度。
