A Co-Occurrence Scrutiny of Transformational Leadership, Employee Engagement, Well-Being and Burnout via a Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Abstract In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, employees anticipate that their leaders will demonstrate greater empathy for the unexpected issues in the workplace. According to recent studies, the present and future require leadership to reimagine human resources leadership and the entire employee experience by focusing on people, cooperation, tight communication, and reestablishing connection and trust. In their 2021 report on the future of work after Covid-19, McKinsey Global Institute notes that hybrid remote work could continue to address the fact that 20 to 25 percent of workers in advanced economies and around 10 percent in emerging economies could work from home three to five days a week, primarily in computer-based office work, including offices of all sizes and corporate headquarters. In this light, the purpose of this research to provide an overview of the relationships between the leadership style, employee engagement, as well as their wellbeing versus burnout. The paper intends to propose a bibliographic analysis of the scientific articles simultaneously tackling the main envisaged constructs, respectively leadership, engagement, well-being and burnout. Given the fact that the inclusion of the Covid-19 pandemic would have narrowed down too much the analysis, the term was not considered in the searches. The bibliometric analysis was performed by means of VOSviewer.