Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2023.2173629
Relationship among leadership styles, employee’s well-being and employee’s safety behavior: an empirical evidence of COVID-19 from the frontline healthcare workers
Muhammad Awais-E-Yazdan
Zuraida Hassan
Cristi Spulbar
Ramona Birau
Mudassar Mushtaq
Iuliana Carmen Bărbăcioru
Abstract
The study investigates the association among leadership styles,
employee well-being and employee’s safety behavior of healthcare
workers. The study used social learning theory (SLT) for
examining the relationship between leadership styles and
employee safety behavior. Moreover, social exchange theory (SET)
has been incorporated to narrate the moderating effect of
employee well-being on the relationship between leadership
styles and employee safety behavior. Data have been collected
with the help of questionnaires from 515 healthcare workers
working in the public hospitals of Punjab, Pakistan. Structural
equation modeling has been utilized to test the study hypothesis.
Findings indicate that both transactional and transformational
leaderships have significant and positive relationship with
employee safety behavior. Interestingly, employee well-being
negatively moderates the relationship between transformational
leadership and employee safety behavior. Furthermore, no moderation
was found on the relationship between transactional leadership
and employee safety behavior. The findings propose that
healthcare management should invest to aware employees
regarding their well-being. The findings also suggest that leaders
should influence their followers to adopt safety measures at workplace.
Furthermore, leaders must be role models in order to attain
a competitive advantage and make a balance between management
and workers.
Keywords
Transactional leadership; transformational leadership; well-being; COVID-19 pandemic; safety behavior; healthcare; Pakistan; social exchange theory (SET)
Hrčak ID:
306485
URI
Publication date:
31.3.2023.
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