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Do transformational leaders enhance their followers' daily work engagement?
February 2011
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This diary study investigated whether and howsupervisors' leadership style influences followers' daily work engagement. On the basis of leadership theories and the job demands–resources model, we predicted that a transformational leadership style enhances employees' work engagement through the mediation of self-efficacy and optimism, on a day-to-day basis. Fortytwo employees first filled in a general questionnaire, and then a diary survey over five consecutive workdays. The results of multilevel analyses offered partial support for our hypotheses. Daily transformational leadership related positively to employees' daily engagement, and day-levels of optimism fully mediated this relationship. However, daily self-efficacy did not act as a mediator. These findings expand theory and previous research by illuminating the role of transformational leaders in fostering employee work engagement.
- leadership
- engagement
- work engagement
- transformational
- day-level
- employee
- study
- transformational leadership
- day-level work engagement
- resource
- style
- optimism
- ficacy
- self-ef
- leader
- relationship
- trait
- self-ef ficacy
- psychology
- model
