Impact of Leadership Styles on Employee Engagement: With Special Reference to Apparel Industry
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2020
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Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka
Abstract
Maintaining and increasing employee engagement is one of the critical problems in the
apparel industry in Sri Lanka. Novel organizations have become aware that leadership
styles are determinant that can increase employee engagement. Leadership styles create
intercommunication between the leader and the subordinates in the organizations. Thus,
the study empirically evaluated job stress as the mediator between leadership styles and
employee engagement of the middle and operational level employees in the apparel sector
in Sri Lanka. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed by using convenient
sampling method to secure responses from 100 middle and operational level employees
working for top 05 apparel firms in Sri Lanka. The data were analyzed using correlation
coefficient, regression, Baron and Kenny mediator assessment method, and Sobal test.
The results of the study indicated that there is a positive relationship between leadership
styles and employee engagement. Mediator assessment and Sobal test identified that job
stress partially mediates the relationship between leadership styles and employee
engagement. The findings show the importance of managers in building a positive and
naive relationship with their middle and operational level employees to enhance employee
engagement. Moreover, the study makes several recommendations. Managers should
improve a good and friendly relationship between supervisors and subordinator.
Furthermore, they should allow employees to raise questions, complain, and give
comments at any time.
Keywords: Leadership styles, Employee engagement, Job stress
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Business Management, Marketing, Human Resource Management