How Does Management Style Affect Employee Well-Being within Large Enterprises? The Case of Albania

Gentjan Shaqiri – Faculty of Economics, University of Tirana, Rruga Arben Broci 1001, Tirana, Albania

Abstract: Employee well-being and a positive workplace culture consist of employees who enjoy and are passionate about their work. It includes em­ployees who show interpersonal and professional pride in the services they provide to their customers and clients, who interact with co-workers collab­oratively and collegially, and who enthusiastically engage in healthy work­place relationships. This highly desirable employee behavior within enterpris­es is not easily attainable. As a result, this paper investigates and investigates how management style impacts employee well-being in the Albanian busi­ness environment. Based on semi-structured interviews with high and mid­dle management of large enterprises in Albania, this paper examines how adherence to international standards to tackle workplace stress affects em­ployee well-being and the degree of nurturing enterprise culture. A compari­son is made between locally-owned and foreign-owned enterprises. This pa­per concludes that managers who can distinguish between a certain healthy amount of employee competition and more destructive ones that affect both a single employee, the department, and ultimately the enterprise are the ones possessing more leadership qualities and capable of continuously cultivating the highest degree of employee well-being in their enterprises.

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