A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE ON TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

Authors: Fang Chuanxi & Assoc. Prof. Dr. Syed Ahmed Salman

ABSTRACT

Employee engagement is crucial to the development of an enterprise, and transformational leadership can stimulate employees’ intrinsic work motivation, effectively improve employee engagement, and thereby achieve organizational goals. This article combs the literature on the concepts and measurement of transformational leadership, employee engagement, and the relationship between transformational leadership and employee engagement, explores the shortcomings of research on transformational leadership and employee engagement, and makes a summary to provide reference for future research.

Keywords: transformational leadership; employee engagement

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