Leaders as role models: Effects of leader presenteeism on employee presenteeism and sick leave

There is a broad consensus that associations exist between leadership behaviour and employee health. However, much less is known about potential mediating processes underlying links between specific leader behaviours, for instance presenteeism (i.e. working while being ill), and indicators of employ...

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Veröffentlicht in:Work and stress Jg. 34; H. 3; S. 300 - 322
Hauptverfasser: Dietz, Carolin, Zacher, Hannes, Scheel, Tabea, Otto, Kathleen, Rigotti, Thomas
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Abingdon Routledge 02.07.2020
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Schlagworte:
Autonomy
Behavior
Data processing
Demography
Employee benefits
Employees
health
Health behavior
Health psychology
Health status
Hypotheses
Information processing
Job autonomy
Leadership
Mediation
Mental health
Occupational health
Occupations
Presenteeism
Psychology
Role models
Sick leave
sickness presence
Social discrimination learning
Social information processing
Social learning
Teams
Workload
ISSN:0267-8373, 1464-5335
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Zusammenfassung:There is a broad consensus that associations exist between leadership behaviour and employee health. However, much less is known about potential mediating processes underlying links between specific leader behaviours, for instance presenteeism (i.e. working while being ill), and indicators of employee health, such as sick leave. Integrating theories of social information processing, social learning, and the allostatic load hypothesis, we propose that employee presenteeism mediates the positive association between leader presenteeism and employee sick leave. This hypothesis was tested with a multilevel mediation model using three-wave longitudinal data from 74 leaders and their 412 team members across a time period of 22 months. As hypothesised, leader presenteeism had a positive effect on employee presenteeism which, in turn, had a positive effect on employee sick leave, controlling for baseline measures of employee presenteeism and sick leave, as well as employee general health status, shared workload and job autonomy, and demographic characteristics. Additionally, leader presenteeism had a positive indirect effect on employee sick leave through employee presenteeism. These results contribute to the occupational health psychology literature by suggesting that leader health-related behaviour can have consequences for employee health-related behaviour and employee health.
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ISSN:0267-8373
1464-5335
DOI:10.1080/02678373.2020.1728420