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Modern working environments bring about new opportunities for personal growth but also increased risks for health impairment. In this setting, self-regulatory competence becomes a key skill. Building on an integrated model of work characteristics rooted in action regulation theory, we examine the role of self-leadership in the relationship of work characteristics with health-related indicators. N = 395 employees participated in a survey study. Work characteristics (learning requirements, work overload) and health-related outcomes (intrinsic work motivation, exhaustion tendency) were assessed by well-established measures. Self-leadership was assessed by a new measure. Statistical analyses confirmed main and moderating effects of self-leadership, although observed and predicted direction of the effects differed in some cases. The partly unexpected findings highlight the importance of considering the complex interplay of self-leadership with organizational context, individual factors, and conceptual clarity, among others.
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Seubert, C., Hornung, S., Glaser, J. (2018). Examining the Role of Self-leadership in an Integrated Model of Work Characteristics and Health-Related Outcomes. In: Kantola, J., Barath, T., Nazir, S. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 594. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60372-8_46
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