%0 Journal Article
%T Leadership and Organizational Behavior as Drivers of Employee Well-Being: Pathways toward Healthier Workplaces
%A Randa Al-Madah
%J Journal of Organizational Behavior Research
%@ 2528-9705
%D 2026
%V 11
%N 2
%R 10.51847/s6ZaxAeZnk
%P 193-205
%X Employee well-being has become a central organizational concern because burnout, stress, disengagement, and poor psychological health can weaken both individual functioning and collective workplace capacity. Healthier workplaces require attention not only to employee coping but also to the leadership and organizational conditions that shape everyday work experiences. Existing research often treats leadership styles and organizational behavior constructs as separate explanations for employee well-being. This fragmentation limits understanding of how leaders, climates, job resources, and recovery processes jointly shape psychological, physical, and social well-being. This conceptual review proposes an integrated model in which transformational, servant, and ethical leadership operate as primary drivers of employee well-being. These leadership styles are theorized to work through psychological safety, organizational justice, perceived organizational support, job demands-resources processes, work-life balance, and recovery experiences. The framework includes a multi-leadership styles module, an organizational climate mediator layer, a job demands-resources and recovery pathways module, a well-being outcomes matrix, and a feedback loop for leadership development. Together, these components explain how healthier workplaces could emerge through coordinated leadership and organizational behavior practices. The integrated model provides a conceptual roadmap for designing organizational interventions that address climate, job resources, and recovery rather than relying solely on individual resilience. It suggests that leaders can help embed well-being into everyday work systems by shaping relational quality, fairness, support, and boundary norms. A systemic approach to employee well-being requires moving beyond isolated programs and toward leadership-driven workplace design. Healthier workplaces are likely to emerge when employee health is treated as a shared organizational responsibility rather than an individual burden.
%U https://odad.org/article/leadership-and-organizational-behavior-as-drivers-of-employee-well-being-pathways-toward-healthier-jdgy8hea8xtq9y2