Die direkte Führungskraft ist aufgrund ihres engen Kontaktes zu ihren MitarbeiterInnen besonders geeignet, diese gemäß ihrer Interessen und Fähigkeiten zu fordern und zu fördern.

Skills and career-supporting leadership behavior: Actual state of the research

The direct manager which has close contact with his employees is suited to challenge and support them according to their interests and abilities. This paper provides a summary of the empirical literature about the meaning and mechanism of different leadership behaviors influencing employees? competencies and career advancement. The leader?s behaviors are divided in two ways of support. The direct contact (feedback, training measures, promotion, trust and expectations, objectives? management, social support, role model behavior) and support by providing competence and career enhancing tasks and job design (delegation of challenging tasks, job control, person-job-fit). Thereby a particular focus is placed upon gender-specific outcomes