Uncovering Relational and Emotional Energies as the Intermediatory Mechanisms Between the link of Transformation Leadership and Employee Job Engagement

Abstract

The primary purpose of this research was to explore the relationship between transformational leadership style and employee job engagement directly and indirectly via relational energy and emotional energy. Accordingly, drawing from conservation of resource theory, we developed a model and to test the model we took a survey of 438 employees on convenient sampling procedure working in non-profit organizations in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A structural equation modeling technique was used to test the hypothesized relationships of the study. We found positive and significant direct relationships between each pair of the study variables. Separately, we found partial support of mediating effect of both relational energy and emotional energy between the relationship of transformational leadership and employee job engagement.  Yet together in parallel form both mediators fully mediated the relationship. Such indirect effects with two novel mediators between the relationship of transformational leadership and employee job engagement make this research unique and significant in the existing literature.

Keywords: Transformational leadership, relational energy, emotional energy, job engagement, structural equation modeling