– To examine connections between transformational leadership, motivation and work engagement.
– Conducts a self-report survey asking employees about their feelings toward their work and their evaluation of their supervisor’s leadership.
– How do you tackle an expensive problem that keeps getting worse? It seems that people are becoming less and less engaged with the work that they do; and this means lower productivity. To put things in perspective, industry reports reveal that only a fifth of employees are engaged in their work – even fewer in Australia; engagement levels are steadily declining; and resulting losses of productivity now exceed $300 billion in the USA and $100 billion in the UK. So organizations urgently need fresh ways to motivate and engage their workforce.
– Shows that both transformational leadership and meaningful work can affect employees’ engagement with their work.
– Notes that meaning in work mediates the effects of transformational leadership.
– Recommends attention to the design of work to address employees’ needs and interests in addition to organizing transformational leadership training.
