Similarities and Differences of Health-promoting Leadership and Transformational Leadership

Abstract

The concept of health-promoting leadership focuses on the interaction between the organization and the individual by identifying components able to positively influence employees’ working conditions. In the present study, the effects of health-promoting leadership and transformational leadership on the employees’ recovery–stress balance are investigated. In an online study, 212 Slovenian workers were asked about their perceptions of their direct supervisors and their work-related stress and recovery. The results showed that both leadership styles have a significant effect on employees’ recovery at the workplace, which mediated the relationship between leadership and work-related stress.

Health‐promoting leadership: An integrative review and future research agenda

“…Some papers study HPL from the employees’ points of view (e.g. Dunkl, Jiménez, Šarotar Žižek, Milfelner, & Kallus, ; Grönlund & Stenbock‐Hult, ), while other papers study HPL from the employers’ points of view (e.g. Jiménez et al., ; Larsson et al., ).…”

“…() and Dunkl et al. (), there are few attempts to build accumulated knowledge. Due to the heterogeneity of the studies, the synthesis is a narrative summary based on previous extraction of primary data (Tables & S4).…”

“…All quantitative papers, except Franke et al. (), have a narrower view of HPL as a workplace or organizational strategy to promote workplace health (Dellve et al., ; Dunkl et al., ; Jiménez et al., ). These narrow definitions have an instrumental view of HPL as a means to a certain outcome.…”

“…Dunkl et al. () used HPLC presented in Jiménez et al. () and found that HPLC dimensions show moderate positive correlations with transformational leadership scales ( r = .27–.42, p < .01).…”

Developing Sustainable Workplaces with Leadership: Feedback about Organizational Working Conditions to Support Leaders in Health-Promoting Behavior

“…This concept focuses on identifying specific components in leadership behavior that are able to positively influence the working conditions of employees [13]. This approach of health-promoting leadership specifically highlights the working conditions at the workplace and the leaders' behavior in changing working conditions in a health-supportive and sustainable way.…”