Banca de DEFESA: Tamires Moura Fernandes

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STUDENT : Tamires Moura Fernandes
DATE: 22/03/2024
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: PPGA
TITLE:

THE INFLUENCE OF LEADER-MEMBER EXCHANGE ON WELL-BEING AT WORK: TESTING A STRUCTURAL MODEL IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE

KEY WORDS:

Leader-member exchange; Well-being at work; Measurement models; Structural prediction model; Public organizations.

PAGES: 112
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Administração
SUMMARY:

Considering the increasing importance that people have been acquiring as valuable assets in the workplace context, promoting well-being at work has become an increasingly prioritized agenda in organizations. Therefore, well-being at work establishes itself as a fundamental aspect in achieving individual, team, and organizational results. There are several studies that analyze the factors that impact well-being at work, and many emphasize the importance of leadership as a predictor of well-being. However, no studies specifically analyzing the leader-member exchange as a precursor to well-being at work were found in the literature, which constitutes a relevant gap in the literature that this study aims to fill. Thus, the present research, descriptive, explanatory, and with a multimethod approach, has the main objective of testing the impact of the leader-member exchange on the well-being at work of technical-administrative staff at the University of Brasília (UnB), a chosen locus also representing a gap in studies on well-being in public institutions. To achieve this goal, the dissertation consists of an introduction (chapter 1), three chapters structured in the format of interdependent scientific articles (chapters 2, 3, and 4), and a conclusion (chapter 5). In chapters 2 and 3, with a qualitative approach, two systematic literature reviews were conducted, one for each research variable. Thus, the presentation of the state of the art of the studied variables - leader-member exchange and well-being at work - provided the identification of the main research itineraries so far and the proposition of a research agenda for further studies. Chapter 4, through a quantitative approach, aimed to describe the perceptions of technical-administrative staff at UnB regarding the two research variables (leader-member exchange and well-being at work), test the measurement models of the research variables, conducting their confirmatory validation, and test a structural model for predicting the leader-member exchange on well-being at work. The target sample of the research was 200 employees, aiming for a statistical power of 95% and considering possible losses in the data processing stage, so the final sample consisted of 244 employees. Data collection occurred online through a survey, with the application of questionnaires. The collected data were analyzed through descriptive statistical analyses and structural equation modeling to test the measurement models of the variables and the structural prediction model. Finally, the results of the study demonstrated that the variables were significantly, positively, and strongly associated, revealing the influence of the leader-member exchange on well-being at work, with a great predictive effect. The main theoretical advancement of this research lay in testing, in an unprecedented way, a structural model for predicting the leader-member exchange on well-being at work, in the context of the public service, and based on the understanding of well-being at work that combines the hedonic and eudaimonic perspectives of well-being, contributing to the areas of organizational behavior and human resources management. As practical and managerial implications, the study provided a diagnosis for public managers of the researched organization to implement human resources management practices that contribute to improvements in the well-being of employees and to the promotion of more humanized, healthy, and productive work environments, based on the identification of positive and critical aspects in the relationship developed between leaders and their teams.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interna - 2315555 - GISELA DEMO FIUZA
Externa à Instituição - KARLA VELOSO COURA - UNIMONTES
Interna - 1905467 - PATRICIA GUARNIERI DOS SANTOS
Interna - 1808014 - TATIANE PASCHOAL