Goal-focused leaders as coaches
How the interaction of goal-focused leadership and coaching behavior enhances employee work engagement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21622813 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lanming Ma (Shandong Management University), Di Cai (0000-0002-1002-8918, Shandong Management University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Publication date | 2026-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1046-1310 • E-ISSN: 1936-4733 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s12144-025-09026-w |
| OpenAlex | W7129521215 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 80 |
Coaching · Employee engagement · Human resource management · Mediation · Moderated mediation · Work engagement · Workload · Educational Leadership and Innovation · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Workplace Spirituality and Leadership
The Psychology of Leadership
Work Engagement
The impact of job crafting on job demands, job resources, and well-being.
Leadership training design, delivery, and implementation
Does work engagement increase person–job fit? The role of job crafting and job insecurity
A Review of Self-Determination Theory’s Basic Psychological Needs at Work
A Critical Review of the Job Demands-Resources Model
A Meta-Analytic Test of the Challenge Stressor–Hindrance Stressor Framework
Job crafting
Workplace resources to improve both employee well-being and performance
Daily job demands and employee work engagement
The phenomenology of fit
The job demands-resources model
Job resources boost work engagement, particularly when job demands are high.
Reciprocal relationships between job resources, personal resources, and work engagement
Work Engagement
Job Engagement
The Meaning, Antecedents and Outcomes of Employee Engagement
Daily transactional and transformational leadership and daily employee engagement
The development of goal setting theory
The convergent and discriminant validity of subjective fit perceptions.
Engaging leadership in the job demands-resources model
An Ultra-Short Measure for Work Engagement
Linking job demands and resources to employee engagement and burnout
Job demands–resources theory
Not all job demands are equal
Person-environment fit theory and organizations
A Motivated Action Theory Account of Goal Orientation.
Job demands–resources theory
Consequences of Individuals' Fit at Work
The Measurement of Engagement and Burnout
Psychological Conditions of Personal Engagement and Disengagement at Work.
I want to achieve my goals when I can? The interactive effect of leader organization-based self-esteem and political skill on goal-focused leadership
Job Demands–Resources Theory
Laying the Foundation for the Challenge–Hindrance Stressor Framework 2.0
Conservation of Resources in the Organizational Context
Temporal issues in person–organization fit, person–job fit and turnover
The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits
Burnout and Work Engagement
Conservation of resources
Building a practically useful theory of goal setting and task motivation
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |