The complexities of transformational leadership and employee well-being: mediators and moderators

• Main Authors: Ho, Yong Qing, Lim, Mariam Kwee Fang
• Other Authors: Lin Qiu
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Social Sciences; Transformational leadership; Employee well-being; Boundary conditions; Work characteristics; Job resources; Loci
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/175349
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In the pursuit of alleviating manpower issues, organisations are turning their focus towards employee well-being. Given that a leader has substantial influences on their employees, one supervisory behaviour called to attention is transformational leadership. Generally, transformational leadership posits a positive relationship with employee well-being. However, mixed findings and the added establishment of mechanisms and boundary conditions suggest that this relationship has more intricacies. Our review seeks to achieve the following objectives: outline the definitions of transformational leadership and employee well-being, and investigate the mechanisms and boundary conditions influencing this relationship through a comprehensive categorisation of existing findings based on empirically validated frameworks. We conclude by outlining the gaps in the state of literature and potential directions for future research.