Abrupt Implementation of Telework in the Public Sector During the COVID-19 Crisis

IF 1 4区心理学 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Zeitschrift Fur Arbeits-Und Organisationspsychologie Pub Date : 2021-09-16 DOI:10.1026/0932-4089/a000367

S. Liebermann, Katharina Blenckner, Jan-Hendrik Diehl, Joschka Feilke, Christina Frei, Sophie Grikscheit, Swantje Hünsch, Kristin Kohring, Joya Lay, Gotje Lorenzen, Julia Reinhardt

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Abstract

Abstract. Lockdown regulations during the COVID-19 outbreak resulted in abrupt changes to work situations and presented new leadership challenges. This short report explores how leaders perceived their options for leading transformationally when their teams were forced to rapidly switch to virtual collaboration. We interviewed 20 supervisors using semistructured telephone interviews who described their general leadership behavior before the lockdown and the evaluated possibilities and difficulties of leading transformationally during the lockdown. The article provides insights into the preconditions for transformational leadership in the public sector during change processes. High workload, time pressure, and role conflicts, combined with restricted freedom of action, restrained their options of transformational leadership. Communicative problems further hindered the transfer of transformational leadership behavior to new working arrangements during the Covid-19-crisis. The article derives implications for ways of helping managers to employ the potentials of transformational leadership in virtual settings and during change processes in the public sector.

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COVID-19危机期间公共部门突然实施远程工作

摘要新冠肺炎疫情期间的封锁规定导致工作环境突然发生变化，对领导层提出了新的挑战。这篇简短的报告探讨了当他们的团队被迫迅速转向虚拟协作时，领导者如何看待他们的转型领导选择。我们使用半结构化电话访谈采访了20名主管，他们描述了他们在封锁前的一般领导行为，并评估了封锁期间转型领导的可能性和困难。这篇文章提供了对公共部门在变革过程中变革型领导的先决条件的见解。高工作量、时间压力和角色冲突，加上行动自由的限制，限制了他们对变革型领导的选择。在新冠肺炎危机期间，沟通问题进一步阻碍了变革型领导行为向新的工作安排的转移。这篇文章为帮助管理者在虚拟环境和公共部门的变革过程中利用变革型领导的潜力的方法提供了启示。

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Zeitschrift Fur Arbeits-Und Organisationspsychologie PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED-

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2.50

自引率

8.30%

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期刊介绍： In Kooperation mit der Sektion Arbeits-, Betriebs- und Organisationspsychologie im Berufsverband Deutscher Psychologen (BDP)