What is it about?
An analysis of two distinct streams of research – employee work passion and leadership theory – resulted in the development of a theoretical model that links leadership behavior, employee affect and employee work intentions.
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Why is it important?
There has been growing research interest in work passion, however limited research has been conducted on the role of work environment antecedents on which employee cognitions and affect are formed and employee work intentions are developed. Research has shown that leadership is fundamental and influential in contemporary organizations and it impacts on numerous positive employee and organizational outcomes, yet questions relating to which leadership behaviors encourage (or discourage) employee work passion, and how such processes occur, remain unanswered.
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Writing this article is an important contribution to the growing conversation about passion in the work domain. I believe the issues of leadership and work passion are inseparable in organizational practice. The investigation of theoretical links between leadership behavior and work passion, can assist HRD practitioners to develop leaders, employees and workplace cultures that foster learning, humanistic values and performance.
Richard Egan
University of Canberra
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This page is a summary of: Leadership and Employee Work Passion: Propositions for Future Empirical Investigations, Human Resource Development Review, August 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1534484317724634.
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