Structural equation modeling demonstrates that resilience buffers passive leadership effects on burnout in police officers, indicating key psychological targets for worker well-being.
Purpose Resilience emerges as an essential resource to face the challenges and demands of the work, ensuring employee performance and well-being. Research focused on the role of resilience in organizational contexts has grown considerably in recent years. Design/methodology/approach Using structural equation modeling and multigroup analysis on a sample of 180 police professionals. The present study examines the mediating role of resilience in the relationships between laissez-faire leadership and employees' work dedication or emotional exhaustion, as well as the moderating role of self-sacrifice and self-efficacy in enhancing resilience. Findings The results suggest that resilience partially mediates the relationship between laissez-faire leadership and work dedication and laissez-faire leadership and emotional exhaustion. In addition, self-sacrifice moderates the relationship between laissez-faire leadership and resilience, while self-efficacy moderates the relationships between laissez-faire leadership and resilience, resilience and work dedication and resilience and emotional exhaustion. Originality/value This study highlights the importance of resilience in improving employee well-being, particularly within essential professions with high levels of risk and demand.
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