ABSTRACT

Although studies suggest that transformational leaders play an important role in employee health and well-being, the relationship between transformational leadership and employee burnout remains unclear. One reason may be that moderators may play an important role. Building on conservation of resources theory, we examined if leaders’ perceptions of internal and external resources in terms of vigour and peer support augmented the relationship between transformational leadership and employee burnout in a sample of municipality workers and their leaders in Sweden (N = 217). Multilevel analyses over two time points revealed that both vigour and peer support enhance this relationship, such that when leaders experience high levels of vigour or peer support, the negative relationship between transformational leadership behaviours and employee burnout was strengthened. Our findings suggest that both personal and contextual resources may help leaders to better engage in transformational leadership, which is important in order to protect employees from burning out.

摘要

尽管研究表明，变革型领导者在员工的健康和福祉中发挥着重要作用，但变革型领导者与员工倦怠之间的关系仍然不清楚。原因之一可能是主持人可能扮演重要角色。在资源节约理论的基础上，我们在瑞典市政工人及其领导者的样本中检验了领导者在朝气和同伴支持方面对内部和外部资源的看法是否增强了变革型领导与员工倦怠之间的关系（N = 217）。在两个时间点上进行的多层次分析显示，活力和同伴支持都增强了这种关系，因此，当领导者经历高水平的活力或同伴支持时，变革型领导行为与员工倦怠之间的负相关关系得到加强。我们的研究结果表明，个人和上下文资源都可以帮助领导者更好地参与变革型领导，这对于保护员工免于倦怠很重要。