The Relationship between Leadership Style and Employee Work Engagement:An Evidence from Meta-Analysis
Based on social exchange theory,resource conservation theory and self-determination theory,this paper makes a meta-analysis of 68 empirical studies on leadership style and employee engagement.The following conclusions are drawn:leader-member exchange,transformational,service-oriented,humble,au-thentic,empowering,transactional,ethical and spiritual leadership styles are significantly positively correlated with employee work engagement,and the influence degree is decreasing in turn.There is a significant negative correlation between authoritarian& abusive leadership and job engagement.Industry category and research de-sign significantly moderate the relationship between leadership style and employee job involvement,while cul-tural background and literature publication type have no significant moderating effect on the relationship be-tween leadership style and job involvement.It is suggested that the organization should enable employees to ob-tain adequate work resources and establish a vision to stimulate the enthusiasm of employees.
leadership styleemployee work engagementmeta-analysis
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