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Leadership jako terapeutický proces: Role pracovního spojenectví ve vztahu mezi transformačním přístupem, efektivitou leadera a pracovní spokojeností
| Title in English | Leadership and psychotherapy: The role of working alliance in the relationship between transformational leadership, leader’s effectiveness and job satisfaction |
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Work and Organizational Psychology 2016 |
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| web | Sborník ke stažení |
| Field | Psychology |
| Keywords | Transformational leadership; working alliance; leader effectiveness; job satisfaction |
| Description | The aim of this pilot study was the implementation of the psychotherapeutic construct “working alliance” to the environment of Work and Organizational Psychology. The working alliance is defined as the strength and quality of the relationship between therapist and client and it is currently considered one of the key factors for the effectiveness of psychotherapy. This study examined the assumption that the working alliance also arises in the relationship between leader and follower due to the transformational leadership. Research respondents were 159 master students with work experience, who rated their current or past supervisors. Respondents completed the Czech Leadership Questionnaire (CLQ) to assess the transformational leadership of their supervisors, the adapted short version of the Working Alliance Inventory (WAI-SR), the general job satisfaction scale of Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS) and the Scale of perceived leader effectiveness. The analysis revealed a strong relationship between transformational leadership and the working alliance and the strong relationship between working alliance and followers’ job satisfaction and perceived leader effectiveness. Furthermore, the results showed a strong relationship between transformational leadership and perceived leader effectiveness and a moderate relationship between transformational leadership and followers’ job satisfaction. These two relationships were strongly mediated by working alliance. The study responds to recent articles encouraging the search for new mechanisms that explain the effect of transformational leadership. |
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