Leading When Overweight: the Influence of Supervisor Body Weight on Subordinates’ Perceptions and Citizenship Behaviors

Henderson, Alexandra A.; Matthews, Russell A.; McKersie, Sara J.; Whitman, Marilyn V.

doi:10.1007/s10869-021-09763-2

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“…Obesity is common for leaders (Burgard & Sonnega, 2018). Yet, to date, leadership research has mainly focused on how organizations can benefit from leadership, with very little knowledge of the costs incurred in being a leader, especially the association with obesity (e.g., Bresnahan et al, 2016; Henderson et al, 2022). By understanding how leadership role occupancy could lead to obesity, we inform leaders of this potential cause of obesity, which in turn may ultimately help them to maintain not only well-being but also enhance perceived leadership competence.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Obesity affects many leaders worldwide and is a significant cause of serious diseases, increased health care costs (Allison et al, 1999; Henderson et al, 2022; Tomiyama, 2019), and reduced productivity (Goettler et al, 2017). Evidence shows that more than 56% of leaders were overweight (body mass index [BMI] ≥ 25 kg/m 2 ) and 24% were obese (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m 2 ) in the United States from 2013 to 2014, and more than 55.5% of leaders were overweight and 23% were obese in Australia in 2019, according to nationally representative data such as from midlife in the United States (MIDUS) and household, income and labor dynamics in Australia (HILDA).…”

Section: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In turn, leader obesity has been found to be detrimental to leader effectiveness (Decker, 1987;King et al, 2016;Re et al, 2012;Re & Perrett, 2014;Roehling et al, 2009Roehling et al, , 2014 and associated with perceived leader incompetence (Henderson et al, 2022). Despite leadership roles making people prone to obesity and compounding negative effects of obesity on perceptions of leadership effectiveness, how and why leadership role occupancy leads to leader obesity is understudied (e.g., Henderson et al, 2022). Understanding this issue will equip leaders to improve their health and enhance their perceived leadership competence.…”

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The work-to-home crossover of leadership role occupancy: Examining how leadership role occupancy influences spouses’ sleep loss and obesity.

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2023

International Journal of Stress Management

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Drawing on resource-based theories of self-regulation and the spillover–crossover model, we investigated not only how leadership role occupancy may affect job occupants’ obesity but also how its influences may crossover to shape their spouses’ obesity. Adopting a programmatic approach with three-panel data sets from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, we found that leadership role occupancy was positively related to job demands, which in turn was positively related to job occupants’ loss of sleep and obesity. Moreover, the spillover–crossover influences of job demands were also revealed: incumbents’ job demands were also positively associated with spouses’ loss of sleep and obesity. Our research enriches the leadership research by offering a new spillover–crossover perspective to the consequences of leadership role occupancy and contributes to work–family research by highlighting the importance of holding a leadership position as an antecedent of the crossover effect of job demands on health outcomes.

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Section: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%