Leaders as role models: Effects of leader presenteeism on employee presenteeism and sick leave

IF 5.6 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Work and Stress Pub Date : 2020-02-24 DOI:10.1080/02678373.2020.1728420

C. Dietz, H. Zacher, Tabea Scheel, Kathleen Otto, T. Rigotti

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Abstract

ABSTRACT There is a broad consensus that associations exist between leadership behaviour and employee health. However, much less is known about potential mediating processes underlying links between specific leader behaviours, for instance presenteeism (i.e. working while being ill), and indicators of employee health, such as sick leave. Integrating theories of social information processing, social learning, and the allostatic load hypothesis, we propose that employee presenteeism mediates the positive association between leader presenteeism and employee sick leave. This hypothesis was tested with a multilevel mediation model using three-wave longitudinal data from 74 leaders and their 412 team members across a time period of 22 months. As hypothesised, leader presenteeism had a positive effect on employee presenteeism which, in turn, had a positive effect on employee sick leave, controlling for baseline measures of employee presenteeism and sick leave, as well as employee general health status, shared workload and job autonomy, and demographic characteristics. Additionally, leader presenteeism had a positive indirect effect on employee sick leave through employee presenteeism. These results contribute to the occupational health psychology literature by suggesting that leader health-related behaviour can have consequences for employee health-related behaviour and employee health.

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领导者作为榜样：领导者在场主义对员工在场主义和病假的影响

领导行为与员工健康之间存在关联，这是一个广泛的共识。然而，对于特定领导行为(例如出勤(即带病工作))和员工健康指标(例如病假)之间潜在的中介过程，人们知之甚少。综合社会信息加工理论、社会学习理论和适应负荷假说，我们提出员工出勤在领导出勤与员工病假之间具有中介作用。我们利用74位领导及其412名团队成员22个月的三波纵向数据，采用多层次中介模型对该假设进行了检验。正如假设的那样，领导出勤对员工出勤有积极影响，反过来，对员工病假有积极影响，控制员工出勤和病假的基线措施，以及员工的一般健康状况，分担工作量和工作自主权，以及人口统计学特征。此外，领导出勤通过员工出勤对员工病假有正向的间接影响。这些结果有助于职业健康心理学文献，表明领导者与健康相关的行为可以对员工与健康相关的行为和员工健康产生影响。

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Work and Stress PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED-

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11.70

自引率

3.30%

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期刊介绍： Work & Stress is an international, multidisciplinary quarterly presenting high-quality papers concerned with the psychological, social and organizational aspects of occupational health and well-being, and stress and safety management. It is published in association with the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology. The journal publishes empirical reports, scholarly reviews and theoretical papers. It is directed at occupational health psychologists, work and organizational psychologists, those involved with organizational development, and all concerned with the interplay of work, health and organisations. Research published in Work & Stress relates psychologically salient features of the work environment to their psychological, behavioural and health consequences, focusing on the underlying psychological processes. The journal has become a natural home for research on the work-family interface, social relations at work (including topics such as bullying and conflict at work, leadership and organizational support), workplace interventions and reorganizations, and dimensions and outcomes of worker stress and well-being. Such dimensions and outcomes, both positive and negative, include stress, burnout, sickness absence, work motivation, work engagement and work performance. Of course, submissions addressing other topics in occupational health psychology are also welcomed.