Chris Wai Lung Chu

Associate Professor in Human Resource Management, Surrey Business School, Surrey Business School, Faculty of Arts, Business and Social Sciences, University of Surrey

Journal article Open access Peer reviewed

Leadership behavior and employee well-being: An integrated review and a future research agenda

by Ilke Inceoglu, Geoff Thomas, Chris Wai Lung Chu, David Plans and Alexandra Gerbasi

Published 27/02/2018

The Leadership Quarterly, 29, 1, 179 - 202

Leadership behavior has a significant impact on employee behavior, performance and well-being. Extant theory and research on leadership behavior, however, has predominantly focused on employee performance, treating employee well-being (typically measured as job satisfaction) as a secondary outcome variable related to performance, rather than as an important outcome in and of itself. This qualitative state of the science review examines the process by which leadership behavior (i.e., change, relational, task, passive) affects employee well-being. We identify five mediator groupings (social-cognitive, motivational, affective, relational, identification), extend the criterion space for conceptualizing employee well-being (i.e., psychological: hedonic, eudaimonic, negative; and physical), examine the limited evidence for differential processes that underlie the leader behavior-employee well-being relationship and discuss theoretical and methodological problems inherent to the literature. We conclude by proposing a theoretical framework to guide a future research agenda on how, why and when leadership behavior impacts employee well-being.

Conference presentation

Family Supportive Work Environment, Perceptions of the Employment Relationship and Employee Work Outcomes

by S Aryee, TY Kim, CWL Chu and SM Ryu