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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - "I that is we, we that is I”
T2 - The mediating role of work engagement between key leadership behaviors and volunteer satisfaction
AU - Dal Corso, Laura
AU - Carluccio, Francesco
AU - Buonomo, Ilarya
AU - Benevene, Paula
AU - Vecina, Maria
AU - West, Michael
PY - 2019/12/31
Y1 - 2019/12/31
N2 - Leadership styles offer relevant clues to the challenging issue of managing volunteers. In particular, we assume that leaders encouraging a collective dimension — such as communal identity, recognition, and trust — among followers can improve positive outcomes. The study aims to analyze the relationship between two key leadership behaviors and volunteer satisfaction, hypothesizing a mediating role of work engagement. The hypothesized relations were tested by using structural equation models in a group of 195 Italian volunteers. Results show that the two key leadership behaviors studied are positively associated to work engagement, which, in turn, is positively related to volunteer satisfaction. The relationships between the antecedents and outcome are totally mediated by work engagement. We explain our findings through the job demands-resources (JD-R) model. Training programs for leaders can be implemented on the basis of this study to enhance volunteers’ well-being.
AB - Leadership styles offer relevant clues to the challenging issue of managing volunteers. In particular, we assume that leaders encouraging a collective dimension — such as communal identity, recognition, and trust — among followers can improve positive outcomes. The study aims to analyze the relationship between two key leadership behaviors and volunteer satisfaction, hypothesizing a mediating role of work engagement. The hypothesized relations were tested by using structural equation models in a group of 195 Italian volunteers. Results show that the two key leadership behaviors studied are positively associated to work engagement, which, in turn, is positively related to volunteer satisfaction. The relationships between the antecedents and outcome are totally mediated by work engagement. We explain our findings through the job demands-resources (JD-R) model. Training programs for leaders can be implemented on the basis of this study to enhance volunteers’ well-being.
U2 - 10.4473/TPM26.4.5
DO - 10.4473/TPM26.4.5
M3 - Journal article
VL - 26
SP - 561
EP - 572
JO - Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology.
JF - Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology.
SN - 1972-6325
IS - 4
ER -