Role of Transformational Leadership in Enhancing Employee Engagement: Evolving Issues and Direction for Future Research through Literature Review

Abstract

In today’s aggressive business world, employee engagement has become an indispensable element for organizational success and excellence. Leadership is considered to be the most inevitable and critical aspect for organization’s advancement. Transformational leaders create a greater involvement in the work of subordinates resulting in higher efficiency and satisfaction, thus elevating overall employee engagement level in organization. Both leadership and employee engagement are one of the most researched subject in human resource management, however linking transformational leadership to employee engagement has not been extensively explored. This paper aims to relate transformational leadership and employee engagement. Main objective is to evaluate the role of transformational leadership by examining all the related factors that have an impact on employee engagement. Research methodology is established on the foundation of existing literature review, diverse empirical and conceptual studies and the relevant findings, which is then analysed to anticipate the transformational leadership–employee engagement relationship for future research.