Building Employee Engagement and Resilience Through Strengths-Based Leadership
Kimberley Breevaart1, Marianne van Woerkom2
1Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (The Netherlands).
The Spanish Journal of Psychology
|October 25, 2024
Summary
Strengths-based leadership fosters employee resilience, which in turn boosts work engagement. This approach helps workers navigate career stress by leveraging their unique strengths for greater engagement and a more resilient workforce.
Area of Science:
- Organizational Psychology
- Workforce Development
Background:
- Modern careers are characterized by high stress and uncertainty.
- Supporting employee resilience is crucial for navigating these challenges.
- Strengths-based leadership offers a potential pathway to enhance resilience.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the relationship between strengths-based leadership and employee work engagement.
- To examine the mediating role of employee resilience in this relationship.
Main Methods:
- A two-wave time-lagged survey was conducted.
- The study included a representative sample of 1,095 Dutch employees.
- Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data.
Main Results:
- Strengths-based leadership at Time 1 (T1) was positively associated with employee work engagement at Time 2 (T2).
- Employee resilience at T2 mediated the positive relationship between strengths-based leadership (T1) and work engagement (T2).
Conclusions:
- Strengths-based leadership can be a valuable tool for cultivating a resilient and engaged workforce.
- This leadership style empowers employees to build resilience by focusing on their inherent strengths.
- Implications for developing strengths-based leadership practices are discussed.
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