The Moderating Effect of Demography on the Interaction between Transformational Leadership, Employee's Engagement, Productivity and Commitment

Abstract

As the global work environment keeps changing to suit the exigencies of the demands of the modern patient and employees, the issue of the influence of leadership in the healthcare sector has come to the fore. This paper seeks to evaluate the moderating influence of demographic variables on the interaction between transformational leadership and work engagement as well as between the influence of work engagement and organisational commitment. As disclosed in the framework the intervening variables are the gender, age and the level of experience of the respondents. Moreover this chapter highlights the influence that organisational commitment has on work performance of employees. The analysis leads to the rejection of the hypothesis that age and number of years of experience equally moderates the relationship between idealised influence and work engagement among hospital employees in Ghana. The findings of the study also reject the notion that gender moderates the relationship between intellectual stimulation and work engagement among hospital employees in Ghana. This was also observed in the case of the role of age and number of years of experience. It is instructive to note also that this findings reject the postulation that the number of years of experience moderates the relationship between intellectual stimulation and work engagement among hospital employees in Ghana, In the same regard this research rejects the idea that the number of years of experience moderates the relationship between idealised influence and work engagement among hospital employees in Ghana.