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How can leaders affect their followers’ health behaviour? A systematic literature review

Bijl, C.R. (2020) How can leaders affect their followers’ health behaviour? A systematic literature review.

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Abstract:A good state of employee health is of importance to organizations and the individual employees themselves. This state of health is affected by the individual employee’s health behaviour. A key factor of influence on the individual employee’s health behaviour is their direct supervisor. Health behaviour by the employee manifest both at the workplace and in their private lives. The mechanisms through which a leader affects the individual employee’s health behaviour are unknown. This systematic review aimed to chart these mechanisms. Even though few studies have addressed these sought after mechanisms or referred to how health behaviour changed in the employee’s private life, fourteen papers were included for the qualitative analysis. A set of eleven categories of variables that may play a role in the studied relationship were identified. These categories were subsequently incorporated into a new, conceptual model that offers several new insights in how healthy leadership affects the individual employee’s health behaviours. At the core of this change model are a personal relationship between leader and individual employee, role modelling and resource management. It is suggested for future research to empirically test the conceptual model, further investigate the relations between the variables in the model including reciprocal effects and explore individual variables in depth.
Item Type:Essay (Bachelor)
Faculty:TNW: Science and Technology
Subject:70 social sciences in general
Programme:Health Sciences BSc (56553)
Link to this item:https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/81691
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