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Could leadership development be the secret of reducing executive stress?
A recently published survey of 2,200 people now aged 30-45 by the Department of Psychology at the University of Helsinki reveals that whilst most characteristics of the type “A” personality are linked to increased work stress, managers with high leadership abilities tend to have lower work stress.
Taina Hintsa PhD and colleagues studied whether different dimensions of Type A behaviour have divergent influences on strain created by work and effort-reward imbalance. The study was published in the January edition of The Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
In The Journal Hinsta says, “We studied the components of Type A behaviour because there is evidence that different components may have divergent implications for different outcomes such as educational attainment and health. Some of them might even prevent work stress.”
The study is based on a follow-up survey of coronary heart disease among Finnish children from The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study. The study started in 1980 with follow-ups every three years until 1992 and after that in 1997, 2001 and 2007.
“Type A behaviour is characterized by aggression, feelings of time urgency, competiveness and hard-driving”, Taina Hintsa explains.
“Leadership is characterized by willingness to win and being a leader in activities; aggression by getting angry easily; hard-driving by effortful competiveness and eagerness-energy by a sense of time urgency.”
“The results showed that leadership predicted low work stress whereas aggression, hard-driving and eagerness-energy may predispose employees to work stress,” Taina Hintsa points out.
Commenting on the results Chief Coach David Ferrers said: “This survey broke new ground by dividing Type “A” behaviour into four categories rather than the traditional three categories of; aggression, hard-driving and eagerness-energy. By adding the additional fourth category of “leadership” they have shed important new light on a major cause of executive illness.
“It is my belief that a lack of willingness to delegate is one of the key causes of Type “A” stress because the work just piles up on them. Our own research makes it quite clear that delegation is one of the prime skills that good leaders must develop. Delegation is always one of the key elements in all our Transformational Leadership coaching programmes.
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