Health-oriented Leadership and Employees’ Well-being: An Explanatory Mechanism of Person-job Fit and Psychological Empowerment

Employees' health is important for an organization as it influences the work and organizational outcomes. Therefore, researchers have greatly emphasized identifying its determinants, especially workplace factors. Building on these lines, this study proposes and tests a Health-Oriented Leadership (HOL) model and its influence on Well-Being (WB) through the mediation of person-job fit and moderation of psychological empowerment. Considering the study requirements, the data is collected from IT and health professionals. In total, 314 useful responses are used for analysis. The data is evaluated in two steps (i.e. preliminary analysis and hypotheses testing). The findings of the study reveal that HOL and WB are positively related. Person-job fit partially mediates this relationship, while psychological empowerment strengthens the relationship. The results highlight that HOL, being an employee-centric leadership approach, brings positive outcomes in the form of person-job fit and employees’ well-being. Personal psychological factors, like psychological empowerment, moderate the relationship and have synergistic effects with HOL. This study adds value to the literature by proposing the mechanism through which HOL can influence employees’ WB. Past studies have largely ignored person-job fit and psychological empowerment as the mechanism between HOL and WB.