The impact of managers on employee stress
The psychological wellbeing of workers derives from a proper balance between, on the one hand, motivating challenges and obstacles faced and, on the other hand, job and personal resources to overcome them. Managers or supervisors are in a privileged position to make this balance possible, through their daily behavior shown in their leadership style. Leadership styles can be ordered according to their impact on job stress, from the most negative to the most positive style: abusive, passive, transactional and transformational. The article explains the ways in which managers can affect employees' psychosocial wellbeing and the specific role of each leadership style. Finally, it concludes by giving responsibility to develop more positive leadership styles not only to individual managers, but also to companies and institutions, as well as educational institutions.
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Eva Rimbau-GilabertProfessor at UOC since 2004, where she has developed the position of academic director of the degree in Labor Sciences, the university master's degree in Occupational Risk Prevention, and the Area of Economics and Business Graduate. She is a member of the Consolidated Research Group "Observatory of the New Economy", of the IN3-UOC. She has been a resident researcher of the IN3, where she developed the project "Flexible work arrangements and business performance." Her research interests focus on flexible forms of work, virtual work and people management in intensive knowledge organizations, with a special interest in the role of managers in these environments.
