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During the COVID-19 pandemic, online education represented a serious alternative to continuing working life in higher education institutions (HEIs). Teachers around the world embraced a new role, adopting and using a wide range of technological and virtual tools to continue performing their activities and with the aim to interact with students and to continue teaching. For this reason, research related to seek and identify factors for the teachers' well-being is essential for educational leaders. Regarding these ideas, this paper aims to test the construct validity of a Mexican version of the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Educators Survey (MBI-ES) of Maslach et al. (1997), adapted to online education. Participants consisted of 406 Mexican university teachers who emergently switched from traditional to online educational practices during the SARS-CoV-2 virus outbreak. In order to test the factor structure of three alternative models based on Szigeti et al. (2016), the authors performed exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (Ferrando & Lorenzo-Seva, 2018). Results showed that the model with three domain factors has the best fit. Besides, our findings show that the three-factor structure of the Mexican adaptation of MBI-ES is valid and reliable for the analysis of online education because the loading of all factors was representative.

Este artículo tiene como objetivo examinar las competencias asociadas al liderazgo transformacional para enfrentar la contingencia del COVID-19 por parte de los docentes de una institución de educación superior en México. El enfoque del estudio es cualitativo y transversal a partir de un estudio de caso, en el que se aplicaron entrevistas en profundidad semiestructuradas a los docentes y al líder de la institución. Los hallazgos resaltan la importancia de que el líder de la organización tenga la capacidad de motivar al personal, inspirar a la gente y dar confianza en tiempos de pandemia; además de impulsar una organización flexible, así como facilitar la generación de estrategias emergentes ante situaciones contingentes, apoyadas en el uso e implementación de tecnologías de la información que coadyuven a la supervivencia de las organizaciones.

This article aims to determine the direct and indirect effects of social exchange relationships Leader Member Exchange and Team Member Exchange (LMX and TMX) on organizational commitment and happiness at work. Based on the literature review and relying on the Social Exchange Theory perspective, the authors constructed the hypothetical structure, including the four variables under study. The sample comprised 177 employees from Mexican firms, and the proposed hypotheses were under examination through a path analysis. Results show that LMX, TMX, and happiness at work have a direct effect on organizational commitment. We also found an organizational commitment to be a partial relationship mediator between LMX and happiness at work.