ReviewWork (Reading, Mass.)2023
Leadership and well-being of employees in the Nordic countries: A literature review.
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- Implementing the world falls guidelines in Sweden: implications for a knowledge support tool and practice.Age and ageing · 2025Article
- What Makes a Difference? Exploring Organizational Initiatives and Conditions for a Favorable Psychosocial Work Environment in Swedish Primary Healthcare.Journal of healthcare leadership · 2025Article
- Managers in the context of small business growth: a qualitative study of working conditions and wellbeing.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The moderating role of paternalistic leadership in the relationship between job satisfaction and job stress among health workers in Gaziantep, Turkey.Work (Reading, Mass.) · 2024Article
- A Cross-Sectional Survey of Swedish Primary Healthcare Nurses' Discontent With Their Current Job.Journal of nursing management · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere is a need for more knowledge regarding the importance of managerial leadership for fostering well-being in the workplace and how context has been accounted for in previous research.
objectiveTo carry out a literature review of previous research that empirically examines the importance of leadership for well-being in a Nordic working life context.
methodsA rapid literature review was conducted with narrative analysis in 5 steps: establish focus, research questions, and inclusion criteria; literature search; relevance screening; quality assessment; data analysis. The search identified 4566 unique studies where 35 quantitative and five qualitative met the relevance and quality criteria.
resultsFindings from quantitative and qualitative studies are presented. Transformational and supportive leadership are recurrently associated with employee well-being, although the qualitative studies also highlight adaptive leadership and leaders being available and providing space. Some connections are made to the Nordic context in the reviewed studies, but these connections are not fully elaborated.
conclusionLeadership is related to employee well-being, although this relationship seems to be indirect, mediated by other factors in the working environment. The review identifies the need for more well-designed studies addressing the contextual factors of this relationship, and how leadership should be exercised in practice.
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