Caniëls Marjolein C J
Faculty of Management, Open Universiteit, Heerlen, Netherlands.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jan 20;14:1089557. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1089557. eCollection 2023.
Leadership is essential for creating a healthy and happy work environment for employees. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, working remotely from home has become prevalent for many employees, which challenges leaders to reach out to their followers even if these followers are not physically at work. Drawing on positive psychology theories, the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between positive leadership and psychological energy (i.e., vigor), and particularly the extent in which this relationship is affected by whether employees are working from home, as well as the tenure of the leader-follower relationship.
A two-wave time-lagged study design is used with a sample of 186 followers.
Findings indicate that the effect of positive leadership on followers' vigor is especially strong when employees work from home, and even more so when leaders and followers have a long lasting work relationship.
The study shows that positive leadership behaviors are positively related to employee vigor. Such positive leadership behaviors consist of praising follower's individual performance, personally thanking followers, cheering them up, and helping them with specified tasks.
领导力对于为员工创造健康快乐的工作环境至关重要。由于新冠疫情，许多员工居家远程办公变得普遍，这给领导者带来挑战，即使下属不在实际工作场所，领导者也要与他们保持联系。本研究借鉴积极心理学理论，旨在探讨积极领导力与心理能量（即活力）之间的关系，尤其是这种关系在多大程度上受到员工是否居家办公以及领导-下属关系存续时间的影响。
采用两阶段时滞研究设计，样本为186名下属。
研究结果表明，当员工居家办公时，积极领导力对下属活力的影响尤为显著，而当领导与下属有长期工作关系时，这种影响更是如此。
该研究表明，积极领导行为与员工活力呈正相关。此类积极领导行为包括赞扬下属个人表现、亲自感谢下属、鼓励他们振作起来以及帮助他们完成特定任务。
