The Relationship between Leadership Behaviour and Work Engagement – A Literature Review
Abstract
Leaders in educational and training institutions or organisations are not different from leaders in other organisations, and therefore are faced with the same challenge of maintaining the corporate objectives of their organisations. The emphasis is on how business organisations can create effective leadership behaviour that fosters increased employee work engagement in order to achieve set business outcomes. Many studies have shown that a leader’s leadership behaviour or style and employee’s work engagement are two of the most important factors responsible for business success. Also, many researchers have observed that the leader’s leadership behaviour considerably influences employee’s work engagement. For any organisation to achieve its corporate goals and objectives, it must clearly understand and align these two important constructs. Therefore, theories of leadership, employee work engagement and relationship between these two constructs are reviewed in this study.
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