Human Capital Sustainability Leadership to Promote Sustainable Development and Healthy Organizations: A New Scale

Human resource management that aims to promote employee wellbeing calls for a new style of leadership. Such a strategy focuses on fostering flourishing and resilient workers to build up thriving businesses and robust and sustainable organizations. In this framework, we developed a new integrated con...

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Published in:Sustainability 2018-07, Vol.10 (7), p.2413
Main Authors: Di Fabio, Annamaria, Peiró, José
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Construction
Discriminant analysis
Factor analysis
Human capital
Leadership
Organizations
Reliability analysis
Sustainability
Sustainable development
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Summary:Human resource management that aims to promote employee wellbeing calls for a new style of leadership. Such a strategy focuses on fostering flourishing and resilient workers to build up thriving businesses and robust and sustainable organizations. In this framework, we developed a new integrated construct of human capital sustainability leadership, and a scale to assess it. This leadership style has its roots in the existing definition of the term but aims to achieve higher integration of different functions and of the four dimensions of leadership, including ethical, sustainable, mindful and servant leadership. In this study, we analyze the psychometric properties of the new scale for assessing human capital sustainability leadership for Italian workers. The results of the exploratory factor analysis reveal a factor structure with the four dimensions that have good reliability and validity. The confirmatory factor analysis confirms this four-dimensional structure, which is integrated into the construct of human capital sustainability leadership as a single second-order factor.
ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su10072413