The relationship between leadership style, employee participation and positive psychology functioning in a manufacturing company in the Democratic Republic of Congo

• Main Author: Monga, Jeremy Mitonga
• Other Authors: Cilliers, Frans
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Leadership; Leadership style; Employee participation; Sense of coherence; Work engagement; Burnout; 658.3152096751; Behavioral assessment; Manufacturing industries > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Psychological aspects; Manufacturing industries > Management > Employee participation > Congo (Democratic Republic); Manufacturing industries > Congo (Democratic Republic); Work > Psychological aspects; Positive psychology
• Online Access: Monga, Jeremy Mitonga (2010) The relationship between leadership style, employee participation and positive psychology functioning in a manufacturing company in the Democratic Republic of Congo, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4757>; http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4757

The objective of this study was to explore the relationship between the perceived leadership style, employee participation, and positive psychology functioning. Such functioning includes a sense of coherence, engagement in work and avoiding burnout. The Leader Behavior Descriptive Questionnaire, the Employee Participation Survey, the Orientation to Life Questionnaire the Utrecht Work Engagement Survey and Maslash Burnout Inventory General Survey were applied to a sample of 200 permanent employees of the manufacturing. The results indicate significant relationships between all the variables and the way in which employee participation is predicted by perceived leadership style, sense of coherence, and work engagement. Significant differences were found between perceived leadership style and educational levels, and functional department; employee participation and educational level, and functional department; sense of coherence and educational level; work engagement and age, and educational level; burnout and age, and educational level.The study has contributed valuable new knowledge that may be used to inform human resources practitioners and psychologist in the development and coaching of leaders and employees in manufacturing companies. === Industrial and Organisational Psychology === M. Admin (Industrial & Organisational Psychology)