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Identity Leadership, Employee Burnout and the Mediating Role of Team Identification: Evidence from the Global Identity Leadership Development Project

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  • Rolf van Dick

    (Institute of Psychology, Goethe University, 60323 Frankfurt, Germany
    R.v.D. and B.L.C. contributed equally to the manuscript.)

  • Berrit L. Cordes

    (Institute of Psychology, Goethe University, 60323 Frankfurt, Germany
    R.v.D. and B.L.C. contributed equally to the manuscript.)

  • Jérémy E. Lemoine

    (School of Psychology, University of East London, London E15 4LZ, UK
    ESCP Business School, London NW3 7BG, UK)

  • Niklas K. Steffens

    (School of Psychology, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, Australia)

  • S. Alexander Haslam

    (School of Psychology, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, Australia)

  • Serap Arslan Akfirat

    (Psychology Department, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir 35390, Turkey)

  • Christine Joy A. Ballada

    (Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology, De La Salle University, Manila 1004, Philippines)

  • Tahir Bazarov

    (Department of Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 125009 Moscow, Russia)

  • John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta

    (Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology, De La Salle University, Manila 1004, Philippines)

  • Lorenzo Avanzi

    (Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, 38068 Rovereto, Italy)

  • Ali Ahmad Bodla

    (Faculty of Business and Management, Information Technology University, Lahore 54700, Pakistan)

  • Aldijana Bunjak

    (Institute for Leadership and HRM, University of St. Gallen, 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland)

  • Matej Černe

    (School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia)

  • Kitty B. Dumont

    (Department of Psychology, University of South Africa, Pretoria 0003, South Africa)

  • Charlotte M. Edelmann

    (Department of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium)

  • Olga Epitropaki

    (Durham University Business School, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LB, UK)

  • Katrien Fransen

    (Department of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium)

  • Cristina García-Ael

    (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, 28040 Madrid, Spain)

  • Steffen Giessner

    (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, 3062PA Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

  • Ilka H. Gleibs

    (Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics, London WC2 2AE, UK)

  • Dorota Godlewska-Werner

    (Institute of Psychology, University of Gdańsk, 80-309 Gdańsk, Poland)

  • Roberto González

    (School of Psychology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago 7820436, Chile)

  • Ronit Kark

    (Department of Psychology and the Graduate Gender Studies Program, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
    Business School, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QG, UK)

  • Ana Laguia Gonzalez

    (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, 28040 Madrid, Spain)

  • Hodar Lam

    (Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 1001 NK Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

  • Jukka Lipponen

    (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland)

  • Anna Lupina-Wegener

    (School of Engineering and Management Vaud, HES-SO, 1401 Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland)

  • Yannis Markovits

    (Independent Authority of Public Revenue, 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece)

  • Mazlan Maskor

    (School of Psychology, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, Australia)

  • Fernando Molero

    (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, 28040 Madrid, Spain)

  • Lucas Monzani

    (Ivey Business School, Western University, London, ON N6G 0N1, Canada)

  • Juan A. Moriano Leon

    (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, 28040 Madrid, Spain)

  • Pedro Neves

    (Nova School of Business & Economics, Carcavelos, 2775-405 Lisbon, Portugal)

  • Gábor Orosz

    (Pluridisciplinary Research Unit: Sport, Health and Society (URL), Sherpas, Universite Artois, 62800 Lievin, France)

  • Diwakar Pandey

    (Faculty of Management, Bhairahawa Multiple Campus, Tribhuvan University, Rupandehi 32900, Nepal)

  • Sylwiusz Retowski

    (Faculty of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, 81-745 Sopot, Poland)

  • Christine Roland-Lévy

    (Department of Psychology, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, 51097 Reims, France)

  • Adil Samekin

    (School of Liberal Arts, M. Narikbayev KAZGUU University, Nur-Sultan 010000, Kazakhstan)

  • Sebastian Schuh

    (Department of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Shanghai 201206, China)

  • Tomoki Sekiguchi

    (Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan)

  • Lynda Jiwen Song

    (Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK)

  • Joana Story

    (Sao Paulo School of Business Administration, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Sao Paulo 01313-902, Brazil)

  • Jeroen Stouten

    (Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium)

  • Lilia Sultanova

    (Department of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Branch of Tashkent, Tashkent 100060, Uzbekistan)

  • Srinivasan Tatachari

    (Human Resources, Organizational Behaviour and Communications Area, T A Pai Management Institute, Karnataka 5761004, India)

  • Daniel Valdenegro

    (School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK)

  • Lisanne van Bunderen

    (Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 1001 NK Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

  • Dina Van Dijk

    (Department of Health Policy and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva 8410501, Israel)

  • Sut I. Wong

    (Department of Communication and Culture, BI Norwegian Business School, 0484 Oslo, Norway)

  • Farida Youssef

    (Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Science, Giza 12311, Egypt)

  • Xin-an Zhang

    (Antai College of Economics and Management, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China)

  • Rudolf Kerschreiter

    (Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany)

Abstract

Do leaders who build a sense of shared social identity in their teams thereby protect them from the adverse effects of workplace stress? This is a question that the present paper explores by testing the hypothesis that identity leadership contributes to stronger team identification among employees and, through this, is associated with reduced burnout. We tested this model with unique datasets from the Global Identity Leadership Development (GILD) project with participants from all inhabited continents. We compared two datasets from 2016/2017 ( n = 5290; 20 countries) and 2020/2021 ( n = 7294; 28 countries) and found very similar levels of identity leadership, team identification and burnout across the five years. An inspection of the 2020/2021 data at the onset of and later in the COVID-19 pandemic showed stable identity leadership levels and slightly higher levels of both burnout and team identification. Supporting our hypotheses, we found almost identical indirect effects (2016/2017, b = −0.132; 2020/2021, b = −0.133) across the five-year span in both datasets. Using a subset of n = 111 German participants surveyed over two waves, we found the indirect effect confirmed over time with identity leadership (at T1) predicting team identification and, in turn, burnout, three months later. Finally, we explored whether there could be a “too-much-of-a-good-thing” effect for identity leadership. Speaking against this, we found a u-shaped quadratic effect whereby ratings of identity leadership at the upper end of the distribution were related to even stronger team identification and a stronger indirect effect on reduced burnout.

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  • Rolf van Dick & Berrit L. Cordes & Jérémy E. Lemoine & Niklas K. Steffens & S. Alexander Haslam & Serap Arslan Akfirat & Christine Joy A. Ballada & Tahir Bazarov & John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta & Lorenzo, 2021. "Identity Leadership, Employee Burnout and the Mediating Role of Team Identification: Evidence from the Global Identity Leadership Development Project," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(22), pages 1-24, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:22:p:12081-:d:681289
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