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Health at Work Through Health-Promoting Leadership

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Health-promotion in the work-place is becoming increasingly important in the face of rising absences caused by psychological issues. This chapter proposes health-promoting leadership as a means of improving employees’ well-being. Health-promoting leadership is defined as leadership behavior that provides job resources and limits high job demands and thus has the potential to increase followers’ well-being and motivation. Moreover, implications for the design of training programs with a focus on health-promoting leadership and guidelines for their successful implementation are presented.

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  1. Abteilung für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie, Institut für Psychologie, Universität Leipzig, Neumarkt 9-19, 04109, Leipzig, Germany

    Torsten J. Holstad, Astrid Emmerich, Christiane R. Stempel & Sabine Korek

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  3. Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany

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Holstad, T.J., Emmerich, A., Stempel, C.R., Korek, S. (2016). Health at Work Through Health-Promoting Leadership. In: Wiencke, M., Cacace, M., Fischer, S. (eds) Healthy at Work . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32331-2_9

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