Lasting Impression: Transformational Leadership and Family Supportive Supervision as Resources for Well-being and Performance

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• Alternative Title:
  Occup Health Sci
• Personal Author:
  Kossek, Ellen Ernst ; Petty, Ryan A. ; Bodner, Todd E. ; Perrigino, Matthew B. ; Hammer, Leslie B. ; Yragui, Nanette L. ; Michel, Jesse S.
• Description:
  Although evidence is growing in the occupational health field that supervisors are a critical influence on subordinates' reports of family supportive supervisor behaviors (FSSB), our understanding is limited regarding the antecedents of employee's FSSB perceptions and their lagged effects on future health and work outcomes. Drawing on a positive job resource perspective, we argue that supervisors who report that they use transformational leadership (TL) styles are more likely to have subordinates with higher FSSB perceptions. We theorize that these enhanced perceptions of work-family specific support increase access to personal and social resources (objectively and subjectively) that buffer work-nonwork demands and enhance health (mental, physical) and job outcomes (performance appraisal ratings, job satisfaction, turnover intentions, work-family conflict). Time-lagged multi-source survey data collected in a field study from retail employees and their supervisors and archival performance ratings data collected a year later support our proposed relationships (with the exception that for health, only mental health and not physical health was significant). Post hoc analyses showed that employees' FSSB perceptions play a mediating role between supervisor TL and job satisfaction and work-family conflict, but no other outcomes studied. Overall, this study answers calls in the occupational health literature to use stronger designs to determine linkages between leadership-related workplace phenomena as antecedents of health, work-family, and job outcomes. Our results demonstrate that employees with supervisors who report that they use transformational leadership styles are more likely to perceive higher levels of family supportive supervision, which are positive job resources that enhance occupational health.
• Subjects:
  Job Satisfaction Organizational Culture Personnel Management Social Support Work Performance Workplace/psychology
• Keywords:
  Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors Leadership Mental Health Performance Work-family
• Source:
  Occup Health Sci. 2(1):1-24
• Pubmed ID:
  31867438
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6924634
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R41 AG050347/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 HD051217/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 HD051256/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 AG019239/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 OH008788/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U01 AG027669/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 HD051276/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 HD051218/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  2
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:97d9aa36565d7c5dbd48fb4c3ee5f67f36eaefd2c92dcad3f0825c129d8c8956
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/83769/cdc_83769_DS1.pdf
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