ePrints

How transformational leadership transforms followers’ affect and work engagement

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Benjamin BaderORCiD

Downloads

• Accepted version [.pdf]

Licence

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Abstract

How do episodes of transformational leadership transform followers? To address this question, we build on theories of affective events and affect regulation and develop a research model that explicates a mechanism of the transformation process implicit in transformational leadership theory. Specifically, the model explains how experiencing episodes of transformational leadership transforms (i.e., changes) followers’ positive affect and eventually their work engagement by fulfilling followers’ basic psychological needs. We tested our model in two independent longitudinal samples using daily and weekly measurement designs with 214 (N = 75) and 147 (N = 54) lagged observations, respectively. In support of our model, experiencing episodes of transformational leadership was associated with basic need fulfillment and led to a change in positive affect, which predicted changes in work engagement. Our findings suggest that a focus on affective dynamics can advance theories of leadership.

Publication metadata

Author(s): Bader B, Gielnik MM, Bledow R

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

Year: 2023

Volume: 32

Issue: 3

Pages: 360-372

Online publication date: 23/12/2022

Acceptance date: 12/12/2022

Date deposited: 16/12/2022

ISSN (print): 1359-432X

ISSN (electronic): 1464-0643

Publisher: Routledge

URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2022.2161368

DOI: 10.1080/1359432X.2022.2161368

ePrints DOI: 10.57711/5f8s-t340

Altmetrics

Share