Journal of occupational health psychology
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J Occup Health Psychol · Jan 2018
Comparative StudyOrganizational nostalgia lowers turnover intentions by increasing work meaning: The moderating role of burnout.
We report 3 studies addressing the relevance of organizational nostalgia for the meaning that employees ascribe to their work (work meaning). We hypothesized, and found, that organizational nostalgia enhances work meaning and thereby reduces turnover intentions. ⋯ In Study 3, an organizational-nostalgia induction increased work meaning and thereby lowered turnover intentions, especially among employees who reported relatively high levels of burnout. When burnout is high, organizational nostalgia functions as a rich source of meaning that benefits employees' work experience. (PsycINFO Database Record
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J Occup Health Psychol · Jan 2018
Transformational leadership and burnout: The role of thriving and followers' openness to experience.
Grounding our research in conservation of resources theory, we set out to shed light on the relationship between transformational leadership (TFL) and employee burnout. Specifically, we considered both thriving at work, a personal resource, and employees' openness to experience (OTE), a key resource, to uncover whether all employees benefit equally from TFL (a contextual resource). In detail, we argued that the negative effect of TFL on employee burnout is mediated by employee thriving at work, and that employees' OTE constitutes a boundary condition of this process. ⋯ The results supported our hypotheses and revealed that employees' thriving at work mediated the link between TFL and reduced burnout. As predicted, these relationships were moderated by employees' personality in such a way that TFL affected thriving and hence burnout of employees high on OTE, but not of employees low on OTE. Taken together, our findings suggest that TFL serves as a resource that protects employees from burning out, but also highlights the need to consider employees' personality in perceptions of and reactions to leadership. (PsycINFO Database Record