Leadership and stress: A meta-analytic review

Leading well is a matter of resources: Leader vigour and peer support augments the relationship between transformational leadership and burnout

“…Most studies on the links between leaders and their impact on follower well-being have used transformational leadership as their theoretical framework (e.g. Harms et al, 2017;Skakon et al, 2010). Transformational leadership is conceptualised as incorporating the four dimensions of idealised influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualised consideration (Bass, 1985;Bass & Riggio, 2006).…”

“…The majority of the empirical evidence, however, points towards the benefits of transformational leadership in reducing employee burnout (Harms et al, 2017;Hildenbrand et al, 2018;Kanste, Kyngäs, & Nikkilä, 2007;Leithwood, Menzies, Jantzi, & Leithwood, 1996), but there are a few studies that also have found a positive (Corrigan, Diwan, Campion, & Rashid, 2002;Seltzer et al, 1989), or no (Nielsen & Daniels, 2012;Stordeur, D'hoore, & Vandenberghe, 2001) relationship between transformational leadership and burnout partly depending on whether overall or subdimensions of transformational leadership were examined.…”

“…In addition, a recent meta-analysis pointed toward the potential importance of moderators after finding a weak negative relationship between transformational leadership and burnout (Harms et al, 2017). So far, only one study has examined boundary conditions between transformational leadership and follower burnout and found that transformational leaders affected burnout of employees high on openness to experience, but not of employees low on openness to experience (Hildenbrand et al, 2018).…”

“…Although studies suggest that leaders play an important part in employee health and well-being (Skakon, Nielsen, Borg, & Guzman, 2010), the relationship between leadership behaviour and employee burnout is less studied (De Hoogh & Den Hartog, 2009). A recent meta-analysis found a weak negative relationship between transformational leadership and burnout and concluded that it is likely that moderators play a role, but that these remain unexplored (Harms, Credé, Tynan, Leon, & Jeung, 2017).…”

Development of a Transformational Leadership Scale for the Turkish Context

“…A review of the literature indicates that transformational leaders have an enhancing effect on outcome variables such as followers' job satisfaction (Podsakoff and Mackenzie, 1996), job performance (Jyoti and Bhau, 2015), motivation (Barbuto, 2005), and levels of stress (Harms et al, 2017). Transformational leadership have been examined in various cultures and different organizational settings (e.g.…”