TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kaluza, Antonia J.
A1  - Weber, Franziska
A1  - Dick, Rolf van
A1  - Junker, Nina Mareen
T1  - When and how health-oriented leadership relates to employee well-being - the role of expectations, self-care, and LMX
T2  - Journal of applied social psychology
N2  - Despite the increasing interest in leaders’ health-promoting behavior, the employees’ role in the effectiveness of such behavior and the mechanisms underlying how such leadership behavior affects their well-being have largely been ignored. Drawing on implicit leadership theories, we advance the health-oriented leadership literature by examining employees’ ideals, that is, their expectations regarding such leader behavior, as a moderating factor. We propose that higher expectations increase the association between actual health-oriented leader behavior and employee-rated leader-member relationships (LMX) and health-oriented behaviors by employees, which, in turn, positively relate to their well-being (here: exhaustion and work engagement). We tested our theoretical model in three studies, using a cross-sectional design (Study 1, N = 307), a two-wave time-lagged design (Study 2, N = 144) and an experimental design (Study 3, N = 173). We found that the effect of actual health-oriented leader behavior on LMX is contingent on employees’ ideal health-oriented leader behavior. Yet, for employees’ self-care behavior, the proposed moderation was only significant in Study 1. High expectations strengthened the relationship between actual health-oriented leader behavior with LMX and self-care behavior, which, in turn, were associated with less exhaustion and more work engagement (only LMX), supporting most of our mediation hypotheses. Our results highlight the pivotal role of employees’ expectations regarding leaders’ health support and help in building practical interventions with regard to leaders’ health promotion.
KW  - expectations
KW  - follower well-being
KW  - health
KW  - health-oriented leadership
KW  - leader–member exchange
KW  - leadership
KW  - self-care
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/61862
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-618629
SN  - 1559-1816
VL  - 51
IS  - 4
SP  - 404
EP  - 424
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Oxford
ER  -