Identity leadership, employee burnout and the mediating role of team identification : evidence from the Global Identity Leadership Development project

Dick, Rolf van (avtor), Cordes, Berrit L. (avtor), Černe, Matej (avtor)

Do leaders who build a sense of shared social identity in their teams thereby protect them from the adverse effects of workplace stress? This is a question that the present paper explores by testing the hypothesis that identity leadership contributes to stronger team identification among employees and, through this, is associated with reduced burnout. We tested this model with unique datasets from the Global Identity Leadership Development (GILD) project with participants from all inhabited continents. We compared two datasets from 2016/2017 (n = 5290; 20 countries) and 2020/2021 (n = 7294; 28 countries) and found very similar levels of identity leadership, team identification and burnout across the five years. An inspection of the 2020/2021 data at the onset of and later in the COVID-19 pandemic showed stable identity leadership levels and slightly higher levels of both burnout and team identification. Supporting our hypotheses, we found almost identical indirect effects (2016/2017, b = −0.132; 2020/2021, b = −0.133) across the five-year span in both datasets. Using a subset of n = 111 German participants surveyed over two waves, we found the indirect effect confirmed over time with identity leadership (at T1) predicting team identification and, in turn, burnout, three months later. Finally, we explored whether there could be a “too-much-of-a-good-thing” effect for identity leadership. Speaking against this, we found a u-shaped quadratic effect whereby ratings of identity leadership at the upper end of the distribution were related to even stronger team identification and a stronger indirect effect on reduced burnout.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: burnout, exhaustion, identity leadership, team identification, cross-cultural study
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: EF - Ekonomska fakulteta
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2021
• Št. strani: 24 str.
• Številčenje: Vol. 18, iss. 22, art. 12081
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-134692
• UDK: 005.3
• ISSN pri članku: 1661-7827
• DOI: 10.3390/ijerph182212081
• COBISS.SI-ID: 85416195
• Datum objave v RUL: 26.01.2022

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: International journal of environmental research and public health
• Skrajšan naslov: Int. j. environ. res. public health
• Založnik: MDPI
• ISSN: 1661-7827
• COBISS.SI-ID: 1024430420

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.
• Začetek licenciranja: 17.11.2021

Projekti

• Financer: Drugi - Drug financer ali več financerjev
• Program financ.: Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies
• Številka projekta: ANID/FONDAL 15130009

• Financer: Drugi - Drug financer ali več financerjev
• Program financ.: National Science Foundation of China
• Številka projekta: 71772176