From Microscopic to Macroscopic Perspectives and Back: The Study of Leadership and Health/Well-Being

• Published in: Journal of occupational health psychology Vol. 26; no. 6; pp. 459 - 468
• Main Authors: Inceoglu, Ilke, Arnold, Kara A., Leroy, Hannes, Lang, Jonas W. B., Stephan, Ute
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Educational Publishing Foundation 01-12-2021
• Subjects: Health; Health Promotion; Human; Humans; Intervention; Leadership; Well Being; context; well-being; health; interventions; leadership
• ISBN: 1433895366; 9781433895364
• ISSN: 1076-8998; 1939-1307
• DOI: 10.1037/ocp0000316

This special issue introduces a set of papers that contribute to research on leadership and health/well-being from multiple perspectives. To situate these papers in current research debates, this introduction to the special issue provides an overview of research on leadership and health/well-being by using a microscope-macroscope perspective as an organizing framework. The microscope-macroscope organizing framework highlights that a comprehensive understanding of leadership and well-being requires researchers to consider multiple perspectives, including those of leaders and followers, embedded in their context and time. It encourages researchers to transcend more narrow input-process-output perspectives that are typically adopted when studying leadership and health/well-being.