The impact of leadership on employee’s well-being – job engagement, job satisfaction and meaning of work – an integrative literature review
Litmanen, Susanna (2021)
2021
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This master’s thesis investigated how building leadership capacity impacts the three dimensions of employee well-being - job engagement, job satisfaction and meaning of work. The primary objective of the study was to increase the understanding of why it is important to build up the leadership capacity and how employees’ well-being benefits from the leadership capacity. The literature review was to share insights of new ideas, methods, or approaches into developing personal leadership skills for future managers and human resources personnel.
The theoretical framework was built on hedonic and eudemonic theory in well-being, job engagement, job satisfaction, meaning of work, and leadership capacity to understand the interaction between job engagement and job well-being. This integrative literature review utilized a mixed method of qualitative and quantitative studies as well as hermeneutic-phenomenological studies. The data were gathered from an electronic database. The quality of the data was assessed by STROBE (Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology collaboration). The data analysis included reading documents, transcribing findings, taking notes, marking keywords, and categorizing the essence of findings into further four sub-categories.
The findings indicated that leadership and different leadership styles have a significant impact on employee well-being especially in the categories of performance, behavior, and interaction between leader and followers. Managers play a key role in identifying developmental needs, and how they impact engagement. Establishing good communication practices helps employees adopt work performance and a new way of thinking. Positive leadership skills and organization practice empower work engagement through self-management, coaching, job crafting, and strengthen with mobilizing ego resources, and meaning of work.
In conclusion, developing learning cultures that operate by collaboration, focusing on learning, sharing good practices as a means of improving instruction.
It is beneficial for organizations and employees to have strategies for checkups and working from core meaning and assessing learning. These are the main drivers behind engagement, resilience, health, well-being, performance, and innovation for the employee in the workplace.
The theoretical framework was built on hedonic and eudemonic theory in well-being, job engagement, job satisfaction, meaning of work, and leadership capacity to understand the interaction between job engagement and job well-being. This integrative literature review utilized a mixed method of qualitative and quantitative studies as well as hermeneutic-phenomenological studies. The data were gathered from an electronic database. The quality of the data was assessed by STROBE (Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology collaboration). The data analysis included reading documents, transcribing findings, taking notes, marking keywords, and categorizing the essence of findings into further four sub-categories.
The findings indicated that leadership and different leadership styles have a significant impact on employee well-being especially in the categories of performance, behavior, and interaction between leader and followers. Managers play a key role in identifying developmental needs, and how they impact engagement. Establishing good communication practices helps employees adopt work performance and a new way of thinking. Positive leadership skills and organization practice empower work engagement through self-management, coaching, job crafting, and strengthen with mobilizing ego resources, and meaning of work.
In conclusion, developing learning cultures that operate by collaboration, focusing on learning, sharing good practices as a means of improving instruction.
It is beneficial for organizations and employees to have strategies for checkups and working from core meaning and assessing learning. These are the main drivers behind engagement, resilience, health, well-being, performance, and innovation for the employee in the workplace.