IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rpxmxx/v27y2025i5p1245-1268.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Organizational changes in the public sector and employee presenteeism: does (change) leadership matter?

Author

Listed:
  • Sarah M. L. Krøtel
  • Ann-Kristina Løkke

Abstract

This study investigates the effect of organizational changes on public employees’ choice of going to work, despite feeling ill (presenteeism). By the lens of change management theory and leadership literature, we explain how leaders mitigate presenteeism among their employees in an organizational change context. We explore this relationship by using a quantitative two-wave panel survey from 2011 to 2014, with the same 689 childcare workers in Denmark. Results suggest that individuals exhibit higher presenteeism in the context of organizational change, but that both change leadership and leadership quality help to mitigate the effect.

Suggested Citation

  • Sarah M. L. Krøtel & Ann-Kristina Løkke, 2025. "Organizational changes in the public sector and employee presenteeism: does (change) leadership matter?," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(5), pages 1245-1268, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpxmxx:v:27:y:2025:i:5:p:1245-1268
    DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2023.2283111
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/14719037.2023.2283111
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/14719037.2023.2283111?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:rpxmxx:v:27:y:2025:i:5:p:1245-1268. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/rpxm .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.