The bright and dark sides of employee mindfulness: Leadership style and employee well-being.


Author: Walsh MM1, Arnold KA2

Affiliation: <sup>1</sup>Edwards School of Business, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

<sup>2</sup>Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL.
Conference/Journal: Stress Health.
Date published: 2020 Jan 20
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  Special Notes: doi: 10.1002/smi.2926. [Epub ahead of print]   ,  Word Count: 144  
    In this study, we use a social information processing perspective to propose that employee mindfulness will boost the positive relationship between transformational leadership and employee well-being and will amplify the negative relationship between abusive supervision and employee well-being. We found, using a time-lagged survey of 246 employees (controlling for baseline well-being), that employee mindfulness strengthened the positive relationship between transformational leadership and psychological well-being. Furthermore, employee mindfulness intensified the relationship between abusive supervision and employee psychological well-being. This study shows the benefits of employee mindfulness in certain contexts and reveals one potential dark side of mindfulness at work. We conclude with a general discussion of this study and outline future directions for research. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.



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KEYWORDS: abusive supervision; employee well-being; mindfulness; transformational leadership ; negative; problems; disadvantages



PMID: 31957962  DOI: 10.1002/smi.2926