Leadership and Employee Well-Being and Work Performance when Working from Home: A Systematic Literature Review

• DOI: 10.16993/sjwop.199
• Publication Date: 2023-09-11T14:16:13Z
• Authors: Daniel Lundqvist; Andreas Wallo
• Keywords: Workgroup

Following the rapid increase of home-based work brought on by Covid-19 pandemic, many daily interactions between managers and employees have been carried out digitally. This literature review aims to compile synthesize previous research regarding importance leaders for employee well-being their performance when is from home. The purpose also relate these findings reviews was performed on-site. Six leadership behaviours are identified as central working leader should 1) communicate promote use technology communication, 2) regularly check, provide feedback steer towards business goals, 3) show trust in give autonomy, 4) support empathy, 5) encourage health, 6) balance need individual with workgroup. There little suggest that exercised home differs a regular on-site workplace. What does seem vary tools used exercise leadership. More high-quality longitudinal needed examines over an extended period, considers how often home, combines different data sources collection methods.