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Increase in Leader's Stress as a Consequence of Leader- Member Exchange While Working from Home

The Covid-19 pandemic still presents challenges to organizations, their way of working and to leadership of both employees and work processes. Organizations are and will continue to be forced to find alternative ways of their work processes, in order to ensure health and safety of employees and customers or users. Due to Covid-19, many organizations constantly shift to working from home for a period of time. For employees, their home becomes a new working environment. Leader-member exchange theory conceptualizes leadership as a process, focusing on the organizational climate, interactions and respect between leader and follower. With the immediate transition from organizational working environment to working from home, employees are not influenced by such factors. We are finding that working from home poses great challenges to leaders and is, to some extent, unsuitable for Leader-member exchange theory. This causes additional burdens and a certain level of stress for the leader, as he has no personal contact with the employees, therefore, there is no leader-member exchange. In this paper, we review the literature on Leader-member exchange theory and on working from home, to describe how it is associated with leader's stress, following the impact it has on leadership.