A Fair Share of Work: Is Fairness of Task Distribution a Mediator Between Transformational Leadership and Follower Emotional Exhaustion?
Drawing on social resource theory and the norm of equity, this research proposes fairness of task distribution as a mediating mechanism of the well-established relationship between transformational leadership and followers’ well-being, conceptualizing the latter as low emotional exhaustion. Using da...
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| author | Tabea E. Scheel Kathleen Otto Tim Vahle-Hinz Torsten Holstad Thomas Rigotti |
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| description | Drawing on social resource theory and the norm of equity, this research proposes fairness of task distribution as a mediating mechanism of the well-established relationship between transformational leadership and followers’ well-being, conceptualizing the latter as low emotional exhaustion. Using data from 479 German employees in a three-wave longitudinal study, we found transformational leadership to be related to fair task distribution over time. The perceived fairness of task distribution mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and follower emotional exhaustion (structural equation modeling) when excluding stabilities. Our results also show a reverse causation effect for emotional exhaustion and transformational leadership over a longer time period (within 20 months), suggesting a circular process, as well as a mediation by fairness of task distribution when excluding stabilities. The findings emphasize the importance of fair task distribution by leaders for followers’ well-being. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6af38d003b2f43deab176290142c5f852022-12-22T02:07:38ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782019-11-011010.3389/fpsyg.2019.02690482229A Fair Share of Work: Is Fairness of Task Distribution a Mediator Between Transformational Leadership and Follower Emotional Exhaustion?Tabea E. Scheel0Kathleen Otto1Tim Vahle-Hinz2Torsten Holstad3Thomas Rigotti4International Institute of Management and Economic Education, Work and Organizational Psychology, Europa-Universitaet Flensburg, Flensburg, GermanyDepartment of Psychology, Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Marburg, Marburg, GermanyDepartment of Organizational, Business, and Social Psychology, Psychologische Hochschule Berlin, Berlin, GermanyDB Cargo AG, Mainz, GermanyPsychological Institute, Work, Organizational and Business Psychology, University of Mainz, Mainz, GermanyDrawing on social resource theory and the norm of equity, this research proposes fairness of task distribution as a mediating mechanism of the well-established relationship between transformational leadership and followers’ well-being, conceptualizing the latter as low emotional exhaustion. Using data from 479 German employees in a three-wave longitudinal study, we found transformational leadership to be related to fair task distribution over time. The perceived fairness of task distribution mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and follower emotional exhaustion (structural equation modeling) when excluding stabilities. Our results also show a reverse causation effect for emotional exhaustion and transformational leadership over a longer time period (within 20 months), suggesting a circular process, as well as a mediation by fairness of task distribution when excluding stabilities. The findings emphasize the importance of fair task distribution by leaders for followers’ well-being.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02690/fulltransformational leadershipfairness of task distributionfollower well-beingemotional exhaustionGerman employees |
| spellingShingle | Tabea E. Scheel Kathleen Otto Tim Vahle-Hinz Torsten Holstad Thomas Rigotti A Fair Share of Work: Is Fairness of Task Distribution a Mediator Between Transformational Leadership and Follower Emotional Exhaustion? Frontiers in Psychology transformational leadership fairness of task distribution follower well-being emotional exhaustion German employees |
| title | A Fair Share of Work: Is Fairness of Task Distribution a Mediator Between Transformational Leadership and Follower Emotional Exhaustion? |
| title_full | A Fair Share of Work: Is Fairness of Task Distribution a Mediator Between Transformational Leadership and Follower Emotional Exhaustion? |
| title_fullStr | A Fair Share of Work: Is Fairness of Task Distribution a Mediator Between Transformational Leadership and Follower Emotional Exhaustion? |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Fair Share of Work: Is Fairness of Task Distribution a Mediator Between Transformational Leadership and Follower Emotional Exhaustion? |
| title_short | A Fair Share of Work: Is Fairness of Task Distribution a Mediator Between Transformational Leadership and Follower Emotional Exhaustion? |
| title_sort | fair share of work is fairness of task distribution a mediator between transformational leadership and follower emotional exhaustion |
| topic | transformational leadership fairness of task distribution follower well-being emotional exhaustion German employees |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02690/full |
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