STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP AND EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT LITERATURE REVIEW

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

ABSTRACT

Employee engagement is crucial to the development of an enterprise, and employee management is extremely critical to the development of the enterprise. Strategic leadership can influence employees by clarifying the corporate vision, organizational culture orientation, formulating long-term plans, and setting clear goals. Engagement stimulates employees’ intrinsic work motivation to achieve organizational goals. This article sorts out the literature on the concepts and measurement of strategic leadership, employee engagement, and the relationship between strategic leadership and employee engagement, explores the deficiencies in research on strategic leadership and employee engagement, and summarizes them to provide a reference for future research.

Keywords: strategic leadership; employee engagement

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