Transformational and Devious Leadership and How it Predicts Stress and Workplace Wellbeing

The aim of the present study was to examine the predictive power of constructive anddestructive leadership on employee stress and workplace wellbeing. The measurements werethe global transformational leadership scale, a devious leadership scale, the perceived stressscale and a workplace wellbeing scale. A sample of ۴۲۳ employees from both public a privatesector filled out a questionnaire at the time of their choice. Results indicate that destructiveleadership (but not constructive leadership) predicts both stress and workplace wellbeing.Furthermore, employees from the public sector reported significantly higher level ofdestructive leadership behavior compared to employees from the private sector.

Keywords:

Constructive leadership , Transformational leadership , Destructive leadership , Abusive supervision , Stress , Workplace wellbeing