Leading with a cool head and a warm heart: trait-based leadership resources linked to task performance, perceived stress, and work engagement.

ABSTRACT: Leaders of today need to achieve well in terms of task performance, perceiving low stress, and having high levels of work engagement. One may ask whether trait-based leadership resource factors can be identified and how such resource factors might relate to task performance, perceived stress, and work engagement. Our aim was to test the hypothesis, derived from Hobfoll's motivational Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, that there are trait-based leadership resource factors, which are differentially correlated to the leaders' task performance, perceived stress, and work engagement. Leaders (N = 344) aged from 23 to 65 years (M = 49, SD = 8.6; 58% women) completed an online questionnaire including measures of task performance, perceived stress, work engagement, perso

SUBMITTER: Daderman AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9684842 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature