Impact of Effective Leadership on Employee Engagement

Engaged employees are those who are having passion towards their work, great sense towards their organization and drive innovation to further forward in organization. Leaders through their skills influence employees and motivate them for better performance, entailing this the present study seeks to investigate how Effective leadership leads to Employee Engagement. To gain insight into how to enhance employee engagement levels, this study investigated the relationship between employee engagement and six perceived leadership characterstics- Interpersonal Relations, Intellectual Operations, Behavioral and Emotional Stability, Ethical and Moral Strength, Adequacy of Communication, and Operations as a citizen. A sample of 60 school teachers in India residing in lucknow, completed the questionnaire survey, to collect the data Leadership Effectiveness Scale devised by Dr. Haseen Taj and Gallup's Q12 Questionnaire was employed which was analysed by using Mean, Standard Deviation, and Pearson Correlation. Overall, the results suggest that there is a significant correlation between Employee Engagement and the six Leadership Characterstics. Engaged employees also expressed disproportionately positive views of facets of the organization over which their leaders have significant control. In other words, organizations with leaders who help ensure, for example, that employee opinions count or that employees understand what is expected of them have a higher number of engaged employees than organizations without such leaders.