The role of transformational and ethical leadership in building and maintaining resilience.

Abstract

As discussed in more detail by other authors in this volume, resilience is often defined as the ability to adapt to or bounce back from threatening situations and refrain from engaging in maladaptive behavior. According to van Breda (2011), resilience, "along with assets, strengths, and solutions, has become an increasingly mainstream concept in recent years" (p. 33). if we accept that stressors can have extremely adverse consequences and understand that resilience provides people with the capacity to deal effectively with life and work stress, then it is easy to appreciate why resilience should be so important for military leaders. After all, leaders should always be interested in the well-being of their subordinates. furthermore, leaders cannot exist without followers, and issues associated with mental health can be every bit as devastating as physical health problems. military leaders who fail to let subordinates know that their physical and emotional well-being

Preparing for the “black swan”: Reducing employee burnout in the hospitality sector through ethical leadership

“…Especially, the moral characteristics of an ethical leader improve the mental health of employees, thereby improving their resilience (β = 0.28). Our results are in line with previous researchers who indicated that ethical leaders could influence the resilience of their followers by building respect, consistency and trust which then influences their resilience (MacIntyre et al, 2013b ). From a leadership standpoint, a leader helps employees to build a higher level of resilience by promoting employees' mindfulness and personal resilience plans (Sommer et al, 2016 ).…”

“…Moon and Jung ( 2018 ) indicated that the moral character of a corporate leader focuses on fostering employees' mental health through a positive and healthy work environment. MacIntyre et al ( 2013b ) believed that ethical leaders can influence the resilience of their followers by building respect, consistency and trust, which then influences their resilience.…”

“…Leadership scholars believe that corporate leaders significantly influence employee resilience (Nguyen et al, 2016 ). Specifically, it has been mentioned in the prior literature that an ethical leader manifests different personnel management strategies to improve the resilience level of employees (MacIntyre et al, 2013a ). An ethical leader develops interpersonal linkages with employees which creates a positive working environment, ultimately improving the resilience level of employees.…”

Crossover effects of Leader’s resilience: a multilevel mediation approach

“…Therefore, the leader can influence followers through daily interactions, such as allocating resources, providing feedback, and evaluating performance (Volmer, 2012). Limited but insightful research has confirmed that certain leadership styles can improve followers' resilience (Ahern, 2015;Maclntyre et al, 2013).…”

Resonant leadership and organizational citizenship behavior: a moderated-mediation analysis of followers’ resilience

“…The findings provide empirical support for most of the proposed hypotheses. The first hypothesis addresses the point raised by Luthans and Avolio (2003) that the influence of leadership on resilience has been overlooked in the literature, as there are only a handful of studies that suggest that transformational and RL behavior increases subordinate resilience (Harland et al, 2004;Higgs, 2003;MacIntyre et al, 2013). Our first set of findings showed that RL was positively associated with FR (H1), both as a whole and in terms of SN and SC components within the UAE.…”