The joint role of HRM and leadership for teleworker well-being: An analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic

The sudden and extensive implementation of teleworking in the beginning COVID-19 pandemic has threatened employees’ well-being. Based on challenges that particularly such well-being pandemic, we identify sets telework-specific HRM practices leadership behaviors, examine their joint relationships with teleworkers’ happiness terms work engagement job satisfaction. Thus, also consider mediating roles social isolation (as an indicator well-being) psychological strain health well-being). We expect should interact reinforce each other. Our analyses are based data from German teleworkers at two consecutive points time. findings reveal differentiated complementary effects telework-oriented leadership. In particular, identified provision care to contribute most HRM’s relationship Telework-oriented mainly affected via by ensuring communication information exchanges between teleworkers.