Hildenbrand, K., Sacramento, C.A. and Binnewies, C. (2018) Transformational Leadership and Burnout: The Role of Thriving and Followers' Openness to Experience. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 23 (1). pp. 31-43. ISSN 1076-8998
Abstract
Grounding our research in conservation of resources theory, we set out to shed light on the relationship between transformational leadership (TFL) and employee burnout. Specifically, we considered both thriving at work, a personal resource, and employees’ openness to experience (OTE), a key resource, to uncover whether all employees benefit equally from TFL (a contextual resource). In detail, we argued that the negative effect of TFL on employee burnout is mediated by employee thriving at work, and that employees’ OTE constitutes a boundary condition of this process. Our moderated mediation model was tested with 2 waves of data from 148 employees from a midsized German manufacturing company. The results supported our hypotheses and revealed that employees’ thriving at work mediated the link between TFL and reduced burnout. As predicted, these relationships were moderated by employees’ personality in such a way that TFL affected thriving and hence burnout of employees high on OTE, but not of employees low on OTE. Taken together, our findings suggest that TFL serves as a resource that protects employees from burning out, but also highlights the need to consider employees’ personality in perceptions of and reactions to leadership. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 American Psychological Association. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 02 Nov 2016 15:31 |
Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2018 09:53 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1037/ocp0000051 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | American Psychological Association |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1037/ocp0000051 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:106914 |