2024 Publications
Leadership Styles, Job Satisfaction, and Stress During a Pandemic: Employee Perceptions's Explored
Leilani B. Goodmon
Florida Southern College
Victoria Lew
Florida Southern College
Transformational leadership emphasizes employee well-being, whereas transactional leadership emphasizes the exchange of a reward or punishment between a leader and subordinates. Both leadership styles are linked to quality environments within crisis management (Bhaduri, 2019). Because there is limited research on the relationships between leadership style and employee well-being during global pandemics (Kloutsiniotis et al., 2022; Lee et al., 2021), the current purpose was to determine how employee perception of their supervisors’ leadership style and response to COVID-19 related issues in the workplace were related to employee job satisfaction and stress. Using a snowball sampling method, 64 working adults completed a questionnaire designed to assess the previously described variables. Results reveal that higher levels of transformational leadership were associated with positive responses to COVID-19 work-related issues, higher employee job satisfaction, and lower employee stress levels. However, these relationships did not emerge for employees who reported higher levels of supervisor transactional leadership.
Leilani B. Goodmon
Florida Southern College
Victoria Lew
Florida Southern College
Transformational leadership emphasizes employee well-being, whereas transactional leadership emphasizes the exchange of a reward or punishment between a leader and subordinates. Both leadership styles are linked to quality environments within crisis management (Bhaduri, 2019). Because there is limited research on the relationships between leadership style and employee well-being during global pandemics (Kloutsiniotis et al., 2022; Lee et al., 2021), the current purpose was to determine how employee perception of their supervisors’ leadership style and response to COVID-19 related issues in the workplace were related to employee job satisfaction and stress. Using a snowball sampling method, 64 working adults completed a questionnaire designed to assess the previously described variables. Results reveal that higher levels of transformational leadership were associated with positive responses to COVID-19 work-related issues, higher employee job satisfaction, and lower employee stress levels. However, these relationships did not emerge for employees who reported higher levels of supervisor transactional leadership.
| Leadership Styles, Job Satisfaction, and Stress During a Pandemic |
The Effect of Self-monitoring, Responsibility, and Transgression Consequence on Apologetic Behaviors
Trinity Callis, M.A.
Minnesota State University
Whitney Whitaker, Ph.D.
Fort Hays State University
The present study, modeled after Schlenker and Darby’s 1981 study, explores the use of apologetic behaviors with consideration for an individual’s self-monitoring level. Participants (n = 235) were recruited using convenience sampling of undergraduate students and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Participants received a survey to measure self-monitoring and were randomly assigned to a scenario condition. The scenarios presented a hypothetical transgression experience that varied in regard to the consequence severity and situation responsibility of the transgression. Behavioral responses measuring how participants would react to the given scenario were recorded. Results from a 2x6 factorial ANOVA indicate a statistically significant interaction effect between our conditions and self-monitoring [F(5, 223) = 2.68, p = .02]. Participants identifying as high self-monitors were more likely to engage in apologetic behavioral responses compared to low self-monitors, namely in conditions with low responsibility. This result supports our hypotheses and has implications for future research.
Trinity Callis, M.A.
Minnesota State University
Whitney Whitaker, Ph.D.
Fort Hays State University
The present study, modeled after Schlenker and Darby’s 1981 study, explores the use of apologetic behaviors with consideration for an individual’s self-monitoring level. Participants (n = 235) were recruited using convenience sampling of undergraduate students and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Participants received a survey to measure self-monitoring and were randomly assigned to a scenario condition. The scenarios presented a hypothetical transgression experience that varied in regard to the consequence severity and situation responsibility of the transgression. Behavioral responses measuring how participants would react to the given scenario were recorded. Results from a 2x6 factorial ANOVA indicate a statistically significant interaction effect between our conditions and self-monitoring [F(5, 223) = 2.68, p = .02]. Participants identifying as high self-monitors were more likely to engage in apologetic behavioral responses compared to low self-monitors, namely in conditions with low responsibility. This result supports our hypotheses and has implications for future research.
| Self-Monitoring, Responsibility, Transgressions, and Apologetic Behaviors |