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Transformational leadership and employee engagement amongst knowledge workers
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/29729 Transformational leadership and employee engagement amongst knowledge workers Cook, Jonathan ichelp@gibs.co.za Hamman, Dwain UCTD Engagement Knowledge workers Leadership Transformational leadership Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. This study attempts to add to the previous research conducted on the relationship between specific leadership styles and employee engagement in the workplace. There are numerous studies of factors influencing organisational and team performance and these have attempted to find relationships amongst numerous key variables in order to predict organisational success. A significant contributor towards organisational performance identified, particularly within knowledge worker companies, is the vigour dedication and absorption, otherwise defined as engagement, of the employees at work. The influence of leadership specifically is viewed as a significant determinant of employee engagement.This descriptive research therefore attempts to specifically illuminate the relationship between transformational and transactional leadership behaviours, initially articulated by Bass (1985), and employee engagement levels within a South African company of knowledge workers. Correlation and crosstabulation tables are used to identify the existence of a positive association. Key findings include a contradiction of the current literature that transformational leadership has a positive relationship with employee engagement at a statistically significant level. Transactional leadership is also shown to have higher predictive qualities than previously found. The research also adds to the case for further study of situational and cultural moderators of transformational leadership’s effectiveness in predicting employee motivation and engagement. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-07T16:25:12Z 2013-04-29 2013-09-07T16:25:12Z 2013-04-25 2012 2013-02-16 Dissertation Hamman, D 2012, Transformational leadership and employee engagement amongst knowledge workers, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29729 > F13/4/164/zw http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29729 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02162013-174647/ © 2012 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Engagement Knowledge workers Leadership Transformational leadership Transformational leadership and employee engagement amongst knowledge workers |
| title | Transformational leadership and employee engagement amongst knowledge workers |
| title_full | Transformational leadership and employee engagement amongst knowledge workers |
| title_fullStr | Transformational leadership and employee engagement amongst knowledge workers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transformational leadership and employee engagement amongst knowledge workers |
| title_short | Transformational leadership and employee engagement amongst knowledge workers |
| title_sort | transformational leadership and employee engagement amongst knowledge workers |
| topic | UCTD Engagement Knowledge workers Leadership Transformational leadership |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29729 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02162013-174647/ |