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. 2021 Feb 26:12:602333.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.602333. eCollection 2021.

Health-Promoting Leadership: Concept, Measurement, and Research Framework

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Health-Promoting Leadership: Concept, Measurement, and Research Framework

Lei Yao et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

Employee health is not only positively related to the employee well-being and family happiness, but also impacts organizations, and society as a whole. We searched the health-promoting leadership literature in the following databases: Web of Science, ProQuest, EBSCO, and a Chinese local database. Based on this research, we clarify the concept of health-promoting leadership, propose a definition of health-promoting leadership, and examine measurement scales for this type of leadership. We also suggest a research framework for health-promoting leadership, demonstrating its potential outcomes at both the individual level (e.g., health, well-being, job attitudes) and the organizational level (e.g., health management culture and practices); the mechanisms for its development based on conservation of resources theory, the job demands-resources model, social learning theory, and social exchange theory; and antecedents (e.g., health values, health awareness, organizational health culture, organizational health climate, and organizational health promotion behavior control). Finally, we identify six potential research areas: Research level, performance, the impacts of health-promoting leaders on themselves, moderators, research methods, and intervention effects on health-promoting leadership.

Keywords: health; health-promoting leadership; leadership; well-being; workplace health.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Screening process in accordance with PRISMA guidelines.
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Research framework for health-promoting leadership. Italics indicate future research.

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