Bridging the relationship of Transformational Leadership and Turnover intentions with mediating effect of Employee engagement

Year 2018, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 1 - 22, 21.12.2018

Sobia Sultana Shaista Jabeen

Abstract

Today in driving organizations, the
crucial part in accomplishing the objectives of the organizations is through
effectual leadership. Considering the ultimate goal to stimulate employees,
managers and leaders adopts a transformational leadership style. If there is a
gap between the supervisory staff and the employees of the organization, there
is a greater risk of a higher rate of employee turnover. The employee turnover
ratio in the organization depends on the behavior of supervisory personnel. Based upon deep down concepts of transformational
leadership and turnover intention, this study is employing mediation analysis
to investigate the causal relationship amongst transformational leadership,
employee engagement and turnover intentions of academic staff of business
schools of Private Universities. In this study, responses of 345 academic staff
have been used based upon convenience sampling technique. Research findings of
this study demonstrate the partial mediation between transformational leadership
and turnover intentions through employee engagement. The study was cross-sectional
in nature. Questionnaire was used to accumulate data from Business schools of 5
private sector universities through self-administered practice. The data was investigated
by utilizing SPSS (Statistical package for social sciences) 22.0. Pearson
correlation, Descriptive statistics and mediation (through Andrew F.Hayes) were
used to analyze data. Outcome generated revealed the significant
negative relationship between dependent (turnover intention) and independent
variables (transformational leadership) and employee engagement partially
mediates the relationship between the variables.

Keywords

Transformational Leadership, Employee engagement, Turnover Intention

References

• Dr.Nighat AnsariInstitute of Administrative Sciences University of the Punjab,Lahore Pakistan