Strengths-based leadership and its impact on task performance: A preliminary study
South African Journal of Business Management
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Strengths-based leadership and its impact on task performance: A preliminary study | |
| Creator | Ding, He Yu, Enhai Li, Yanbin | |
| Description | Purpose: The current article aims to develop and validate the strengths-based leadership (SBL) scale and to explore the association of SBL with task performance and the roles of work-related well-being (WWB) and work pressure in the relationship.Design/methodology/approach: The exploratory factor and the confirmatory factor analyses were applied to assess the validity and reliability of the SBL scale. A total of 342 employees (female = 54.1%; mean age = 30.37 years, standard deviation [SD] = 5.90 years) from various Chinese enterprises were used to test the association of SBL with task performance.Findings/results: The results revealed that the two-dimensional SBL scale shows appropriate validity and reliability, and SBL is positively correlated with task performance. In addition, we also found that WWB acts as a mediator in the SBL-task performance linkage, and work pressure can enhance the direct association of SBL with WWB and the indirect association of SBL with task performance via WWB.Practical implication: Our findings have some significant managerial implications in promoting employees’ task performance and research on SBL provides a new insight into leadership development.Originality/value: This article provides a useful tool to measure the SBL construct and is the first to empirically examine the effects of SBL. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2020-12-17 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajbm.v51i1.1832 | |
| Source | South African Journal of Business Management; Vol 51, No 1 (2020); 9 pages 2078-5976 2078-5585 | |
| Language | eng | |
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