Business Results and Well-being: An Engaging Leadership Intervention Study

Outcomes showed positive business results through significant increases in a preselected key performance indicator and decreased employee absenteeism. Through changes in autonomy satisfaction and intrinsic motivation, the team leaders (N = 14) benefitted in a moderate to very large extent relative to a similar control group (N = 52), whereas the team members (N = 148) displayed no such benefits. Specifically, higher levels of autonomy satisfaction are said to lead to higher levels of psychological well-being and motivation, but the link with business performance is absent in most organizational studies within self-determination theory, making the present study one of the first to fill this gap.

The study discloses programme design, compares the effects to a relevant control group, evaluates the lessons learned, and provides practical suggestions. Date: 01-03-2016 - 06-07-2017 (datacollection) Date: 2019-07-16