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Published in: Journal of Happiness Studies 4/2019

12-06-2018 | Research Paper

Linking Managerial Coaching and Leader–Member Exchange on Work Engagement and Performance

Authors: Jussi Tanskanen, Liisa Mäkelä, Riitta Viitala

Published in: Journal of Happiness Studies | Issue 4/2019

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Abstract

This study investigates how individual- and unit-level performance can be fostered by supervisors’ behavioural styles (managerial coaching) and the personal relationship between supervisor and subordinate (leader–member exchange, LMX). The JD-R model holds that good leadership serves as a job resource and triggers a motivational process that will lead through work engagement to good performance. This study first introduces and validates novel measurement instruments for managerial coaching, LMX, and self-rated performance. Then, the study utilizes multilevel methodology (MSEM) to investigate the connections between study variables at the individual- and unit-level. A sample from two organizations (N = 655) was utilized in the measurement validation and a sample from multiple organizations (N = 879) in the hypothesis testing. Samples using self-rating measurements were collected from different Finnish organizations between 2011 and 2012. The results show that, while managerial coaching was connected more to the unit-level performance, LMX had stronger effect to the individual performance and work engagement, which was connected with the unit-level performance. Analysing two leadership constructs at the same time suggests that there are different mechanisms driving managerial coaching and the LMX relationship in the motivational process and towards good performance as the JD-R model proposes. The study also contributes to literature by introducing and validating measurement instruments.

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Metadata
Title
Linking Managerial Coaching and Leader–Member Exchange on Work Engagement and Performance
Authors
Jussi Tanskanen
Liisa Mäkelä
Riitta Viitala
Publication date
12-06-2018
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Journal of Happiness Studies / Issue 4/2019
Print ISSN: 1389-4978
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7780
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-018-9996-9

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