title: Employee-oriented leadership and quality of working life: mediating roles of idiosyncratic deals.
abstract: Leader consideration has long been suggested to be conducive to quality of working life experienced by employees. The present study links this classic leadership dimension with more recent research on idiosyncratic deals, referring to personalized conditions workers negotiate in their employment relationships. A two-wave survey study (N = 159/142) among German hospital physicians suggests that authorizing idiosyncratic deals is a manifestation of employee-oriented leader behavior. Consideration had consistent positive effects on idiosyncratic deals regarding both professional development and working time flexibility. These two types had differential effects on two indicators of the quality of working life. Development related positively to work engagement, flexibility related negatively to work-family conflict. Cross-lagged correlations supported the proposed direction of influence between consideration and idiosyncratic deals in a subsample of repeating responders (n=91). The relation between development and engagement appeared to be reciprocal. Longitudinal results for the association between flexibility and work-family conflict were inconclusive.
authors.affiliation: Department of Management and Marketing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. mssev@polyu.edu.hk
authors.forename: Severin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hornung
authors.forename: Jürgen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Glaser
authors.forename: Denise M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Rousseau
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Angerer
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Weigl
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002322:Career Mobility; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D017008:Negotiating; D010559:Personnel Management; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014940:Work Schedule Tolerance