AUTHOR=Klug Katharina , Felfe Jörg , Krick Annika 

TITLE=Caring for Oneself or for Others? How Consistent and Inconsistent Profiles of Health-Oriented Leadership Are Related to Follower Strain and Health

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=10

YEAR=2019

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02456

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02456

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<p>Health-oriented leadership consists of three dimensions that contribute to employee health: staff care, i.e., health-specific follower-directed leadership, as well as both leaders’ and followers’ self care, i.e., health-specific self-leadership. This study explores profiles of follower self care, leader self care and staff care, and investigates the relationships with follower health in two samples. We identified four patterns of health-oriented leadership: A consistently positive profile (<italic>high care</italic>), a consistently negative profile (<italic>low care</italic>), and two profiles showing inconsistencies between follower self care, leader self care, and staff care (<italic>leader sacrifice</italic> and <italic>follower sacrifice</italic>). The <italic>high care</italic> profile reported the best health compared to both the <italic>low care</italic> profile and the inconsistent profiles. The <italic>follower sacrifice</italic> profile reported more strain than the <italic>leader sacrifice</italic> profile, while strain and health levels were the least favorable in the <italic>low care</italic> profile. Findings reveal that (in-)consistency between follower-directed leadership and self-leadership contributes to follower strain and health.</p>