Andy’s Quick Hits (243): Engaging Leadership Boosts Employee Engagement, and Team Effectiveness, and Resilience

A paper just out has looked again at leadership style and impacts on employee engagement and also various team effectiveness measures.

Greta Mazzetti of the University of Bologna, Italy, and Wilmar Schaufeli of Utrecht University in the Netherlands have just published an analysis of this. Specifically, they were looking at what is called an engaged leadership style which is classed as a style in which leaders fulfil employees’ need for autonomy, feeling competent, and feeling cared. In short very much in line with our SCOAP model.

They surveyed 1048 employees across 90 teams in a Dutch organisation twice, 12 months apart.

What did they find?

They found that those who experienced engaging leadership had a boost in:

• Optimism
• Resiliency
• Self-efficacy
• Flexibility

That ain’t too bad to begin with! But the teams also reported:

• Higher team effectiveness
• A boost in team resources
• Better performance feedback
• Higher trust in management