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Leadership and well-being of employees in the Nordic countries: A literature review
BACKGROUND: There is a need for more knowledge regarding the importance of managerial leadership for fostering well-being in the workplace and how context has been accounted for in previous research. OBJECTIVE: To carry out a literature review of previous research that empirically examines the impor...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10200244/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36502360 http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/WOR-210063 |
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author | Lundqvist, Daniel Wallo, Andreas Reineholm, Cathrine |
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description | BACKGROUND: There is a need for more knowledge regarding the importance of managerial leadership for fostering well-being in the workplace and how context has been accounted for in previous research. OBJECTIVE: To carry out a literature review of previous research that empirically examines the importance of leadership for well-being in a Nordic working life context. METHODS: A rapid literature review was conducted with narrative analysis in 5 steps: establish focus, research questions, and inclusion criteria; literature search; relevance screening; quality assessment; data analysis. The search identified 4566 unique studies where 35 quantitative and five qualitative met the relevance and quality criteria. RESULTS: Findings from quantitative and qualitative studies are presented. Transformational and supportive leadership are recurrently associated with employee well-being, although the qualitative studies also highlight adaptive leadership and leaders being available and providing space. Some connections are made to the Nordic context in the reviewed studies, but these connections are not fully elaborated. CONCLUSION: Leadership is related to employee well-being, although this relationship seems to be indirect, mediated by other factors in the working environment. The review identifies the need for more well-designed studies addressing the contextual factors of this relationship, and how leadership should be exercised in practice. |
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spelling | pubmed-102002442023-05-22 Leadership and well-being of employees in the Nordic countries: A literature review Lundqvist, Daniel Wallo, Andreas Reineholm, Cathrine Work Review Article BACKGROUND: There is a need for more knowledge regarding the importance of managerial leadership for fostering well-being in the workplace and how context has been accounted for in previous research. OBJECTIVE: To carry out a literature review of previous research that empirically examines the importance of leadership for well-being in a Nordic working life context. METHODS: A rapid literature review was conducted with narrative analysis in 5 steps: establish focus, research questions, and inclusion criteria; literature search; relevance screening; quality assessment; data analysis. The search identified 4566 unique studies where 35 quantitative and five qualitative met the relevance and quality criteria. RESULTS: Findings from quantitative and qualitative studies are presented. Transformational and supportive leadership are recurrently associated with employee well-being, although the qualitative studies also highlight adaptive leadership and leaders being available and providing space. Some connections are made to the Nordic context in the reviewed studies, but these connections are not fully elaborated. CONCLUSION: Leadership is related to employee well-being, although this relationship seems to be indirect, mediated by other factors in the working environment. The review identifies the need for more well-designed studies addressing the contextual factors of this relationship, and how leadership should be exercised in practice. IOS Press 2023-04-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10200244/ /pubmed/36502360 http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/WOR-210063 Text en © 2023 – The authors. Published by IOS Press https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Review Article Lundqvist, Daniel Wallo, Andreas Reineholm, Cathrine Leadership and well-being of employees in the Nordic countries: A literature review |
title | Leadership and well-being of employees in the Nordic countries: A literature review |
title_full | Leadership and well-being of employees in the Nordic countries: A literature review |
title_fullStr | Leadership and well-being of employees in the Nordic countries: A literature review |
title_full_unstemmed | Leadership and well-being of employees in the Nordic countries: A literature review |
title_short | Leadership and well-being of employees in the Nordic countries: A literature review |
title_sort | leadership and well-being of employees in the nordic countries: a literature review |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10200244/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36502360 http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/WOR-210063 |
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