Reflection on leadership behavior: potentials and limits in the implementation of stress-preventive leadership of middle management in hospitals - a qualitative evaluation of a participatory developed intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mental health and stress prevention aspects related to workplace in hospitals are gaining increasingly more attention in research. The workplace hospital is characterized by high work intensity, high emotional demands, and high levels of stress. These conditions can be a risk for the development of mental disorders. Leadership styles can hinder or foster work-related stress and influence the well-being of employees. Through leadership interventions, leaders may be encouraged to develop a stress-preventive leadership style that addresses both, the well-being of the leaders and of the subordinates. A comprehensive qualitative description of leaders' experiences with interventions on the topic of stress-preventive leadership is yet missing in the literature. Therefore, we a

SUBMITTER: Tsarouha E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8628435 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature