Autonomy supportive and controlling leadership as antecedents of work design and employee well-being

Artikel

The continuation of work that undermines employee well-being necessitates an investigation into the antecedents of work design. Therefore, we examined how autonomy supportive and controlling leadership - as defined in self-determination theory (SDT) - relate to employees' job resources, job demands, and well-being. Using a cross-sectional (N = 501) and a daily diary study (N = 123), we found that autonomy supportive leadership relates to employees' work engagement via job resources both at the between- and within-person levels. However, only the cross-sectional study evidenced a relationship between autonomy supportive leadership and exhaustion via job resources. Controlling leadership related to exhaustion via job demands at the between-person level in both studies but not at the within-person level. Alongside implications for the literature on SDT, work design theory, the leadership literature, and workplace re-enchantment, we advance concomitant insights to practitioners.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: BRQ Business Research Quarterly ; ISSN: 2340-9436 ; Volume: 25 ; Year: 2022 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 44-61 ; London: Sage Publishing

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Management ; General Welfare; Well-Being ; Labor Standards: Working Conditions ; Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
• Subject: Autonomy supportive leadership ; controlling leadership ; employee well-being ; job demand resources model ; self-determination theory

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Sarmah, Pallavi ; Van den Broeck, Anja ; Schreurs, Bert ; Proost, Karin ; Germeys, Filip
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Sage Publishing
• (where): London
• (when): 2022

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1177/23409444211054508
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/261916
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET