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The Influence of Supervisor’s Transformational Leadership and Followers’ Occupational Well-Being: A Dual Pathway Model from a Conservation of Resources Theory
Yanmin Zhao, Baoguo Xie*, Wenyuan Jin
School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, China
* Corresponding Author:* Correspondence Author: Baoguo Xie. Email:
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion 2018, 20(1), 15-26. https://doi.org/10.32604/IJMHP.2018.010747
Abstract
Occupational well-being is optimal psychological functioning and
experience in the workplace. This study examined the role of opportunities for
career development as a mechanism that links supervisor’s transformational
leadership and subordinates’ occupational well-being manifested by work
engagement. Specifically, drawing on conservation of resources theory (COR),
we developed a dual pathway model in which opportunities for promotion and
for professional development were posited as two important mediators in the
relationship between transformational leadership and work engagement. The
hypotheses were tested with a sample of 215 Chinese civil servants. The results
of structural equation modeling showed that a supervisor’s transformational
leadership was positively related to subordinates’ work engagement. This
association was partially mediated by opportunities for professional development
and not mediated by opportunities for promotion. Implications for theory and
practice are discussed.
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Zhao, Y., Xie, B., Jin, W. (2018). The Influence of Supervisor’s Transformational Leadership and Followers’ Occupational Well-Being: A Dual Pathway Model from a Conservation of Resources Theory.
International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 20(1), 15–26. https://doi.org/10.32604/IJMHP.2018.010747
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