The Influence of Transformational Leadership on Work Engagement and Employee Commitment

Abstract

Despite the fact that leaders may be constrained as far as the structure of relational networks function restricts the flow of information, knowledge and resources, leadership is responsible to have clear insight of the goals of the organization and its administrative tasks or function,, appreciate strongly the nature of fluidity and dynamics of the social structures in the organisation and how they affect the organisation over before they can be effective. This paper investigates the relationship between transformational leadership attributes and employee’s commitment. The study further investigates the extent to which work engagement mediates the relationship between transformational leadership and employee commitment. The analysis shows that the entire hypothesis must be accepted. This is because a leader’s intellectual stimulation significantly influences the commitment of healthcare professionals and it’s statistically significant at 95% confidence interval. The same applies to the fact that the relationship between intellectual stimulation and employee commitment is mediated by work engagement. Again the analysis accepts the fact that a leader’s idealised influence significantly influences the commitment of healthcare professionals and also that the relationship between idealised influence and employee commitment is mediated by work engagement.