The leader’s other-oriented perfectionism, followers’ job stress and workplace well-being in the context of multiple team membership: The moderator role of pressure to be performant

Abstract

Nowadays, perfectionism in organizations is a popular topic in the scientific literature (Ocampo, Wang, Kiazad, Restubog, & Ashkanasy, 2020; Saklofske, Di Fabio, Svicher, & Smith, 2023; Steinert, Heim, & Leichsenring, 2021). Building on the research on the topic of perfectionism at individual level, the present study investigates how the leader’s other-oriented perfectionism influences followers’ workplace well-being and their job stress, and how the pressure to be performant moderates these relationships in the context of multiple team membership. In order to test the four proposed hypotheses, a quantitative predictive correlational research design was used. Our sample consisted of 155 Romanian employees. Our results indicate that the leader’s other-oriented perfectionism was not related to followers’ job stress. Surprisingly, this form of perfectionism positively related to followers’ workplace well-being. In addition, the pressure to be performant did not moderate the relationship between the leader’s other-oriented perfectionism, on one hand, and job stress and workplace well-being, on the other hand. These findings extend the literature on others-oriented perfectionism and well-being in the context of multiple team membership.